What do you get when you cross a glossy all-star business drama with a kinky Italian horror flick, a German crime procedural, and “Fiddler on the Roof?” That insane mix may sound too good to be true, ...

Sidney Sheldon, who won awards in three careers — Broadway theater, movies, television — then at age 50 turned to writing bestselling novels about stalwart women who triumph in a hostile world of ...