by Sidney Sheldon · Sperling & Kupfer · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788878247642
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«Padrona del gioco» is the suspense novel by Sidney Sheldon, published by Sperling & Kupfer in paperback (544 pages, in Italian).
Kate Blackwell, matriarch of an empire born in the diamond fields of South Africa, is one of the most powerful women in the world. On her ninetieth birthday, the ghosts of a past of blackmail, murder and hidden passions surface. A suspense novel about the ambition and power of a dynasty.
«Padrona del gioco» is the first instalment of the The Game series; the original Master of the Game was published in 1982. Italian edition from the Super Bestseller collection, with translation by Tullio Dobner.
For lovers of thrillers and family sagas, with a dominant matriarch like Kate Blackwell.
Sidney Sheldon was an American writer. He was prominent in the 1940s and 50s, first working on Broadway plays, and then in motion pictures, notably writing the successful comedy The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer (1947), which earned him an Oscar in 1948. He went on to work in television, where over 20 years he created The Patty Duke Show (1963–66), I Dream of Jeannie (1965–70), and Hart to Hart (1979–84). After turning 50, he began writing best-selling romantic suspense novels, such as The Other Side of Midnight (1973), Master of the Game (1982), and Rage of Angels (1980).
