The old slushmeister's plots (Nothing Lasts Forever, 1994, etc.)
may be paper-thin, his characters watery, his moralities
sugar-dusted, but once again his perfectly empty style - in a
broken family romance set in Boston and points exotic - serves him
unfailingly. Sexually promiscous multibillionaire/patriarch Harry
Stanford tyrannically lords it over a brood that Eugene O'Neill
would have a tough time liking: Tyler, a scheming gay judge from
Chicago who's lost it for an indifferent hustler; Kendall, a
fashion designer who ran over a blind woman, covered it up, and is
now being blackmailed; Woody, a polo-playboy smack junkie who beats
his wife; and long-lost Julia, the illegitimate daughter of Harry's
tryst with his kids' governess, an affair that prompted their
natural mother's suicide. When Harry falls off his yacht and
drowns, the buzzards circle over the family estate, hankering for
their father's will to be probated. Then a woman claiming to be
Julia appears, and all are skeptical until Tyler contracts a
private detective to validate her identity. We soon learn that
Tyler has hired a phony Julia (along with the phony p.i.) and
murdered Dad in order to get control of the old man's financial
empire. He almost gets away with it, but the real Julia shows up
and crashes his premature party. Sweet as pie, Julia Two just wants
to reacquaint herself with the family, then finds herself embroiled
in Tyler's ongoing dastardliness to such an extent that a
white-knight lawyer investigating Harry Stanford's suspicious death
rushes both to protect and court her. It may be thin, flawed, and
empty, but reading it is as involuntary as breathing. (Kirkus
Reviews)
The Stanford family is one of the most respected in America – but behind the facade of fame and glamour lies a hidden web of blackmail, drugs and murder…
When Harry Stanford, one of the wealthiest men in the world, mysteriously drowns while cruising on his yacht off the rugged coast of Corsica, it sets off a chain of events that reverberates around the globe.
At the family gathering following the funeral in Boston, a strikingly beautiful young woman appears. She claims to be Stanford's daughter and entitled to a share of the tycoon's estate. Is she genuine, or is she an imposter?
Sweeping from the splendours of the Italian Riviera, to the fashion salons of Paris and New York, and the élite opulence of Boston and Florida, 'Morning, Noon & Night' twists and turns its way through intrigue, smoke and mirrors to a surprise ending you'll never forget…
'Sheldon is a writer working at the height of his power… powerful enough to drag us along with him. I hung on till the very end.'
NEW YORK TIMES
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