Memories of Midnight by Sidney Sheldon
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Memories of Midnight is a 1990 novel written by Sidney Sheldon. It is a sequel to Sheldon's The Other Side of Midnight.The plot of Memories of Midnight takes off from the ending of The Other Side of Midnight, where Catherine Douglas is recovering in a convent. The world thinks that she has been killed by her husband Larry Douglas and his mistress Noelle Page, except Constantin Demiris, known as Costa. But Catherine wants to discover herself and know who she is. The only thing she knows is that her name is Catherine Alexander. She requests to see the world outside the convent in order to reveal her past. This request is granted by the Sister of the convent, but only after getting the approval from their mentor Constantin Demiris.
It is there in Greece that she realizes that her husband and his mistress tried to kill her but didn’t succeed as she was still alive. She remembers them trying to drown her and this becomes a recurring dream. When she tells all this to Costa, he is a bit angry as he didn’t want her uncovering her past but anyway he wishes to dispose her of as she is the last link to the case in which Larry and Noelle were wrongly accused of killing her. So he sends her off to London to work there in one of his various offices.
Constantin Demiris seems like a benefactor to Catherine as she has no knowledge of what Constantin Demiris has in plan for her.
Trouble starts brewing when Frederick Stavros starts feeling guilty for sending Larry and Noelle to their death as he was their lawyer and they were all tricked into pleading guilty by Napoleon Chotas but he dies shortly after confiding this news to a priest who after his death tells this news to a employee working in the office of Spyros Lambrou who is the brother of Costa’s wife Melina. This news reaches Spyros Lambrou who uses this news to destroy Costa as Costa had maltreated his wife, Spyros’ sister.
This is when Napoleon Chotas starts fearing his own death and hence leaves a package with a prosecuting attorney Peter Demonides and sends a tape referring to this to Costa but the next day Chotas’ house is burned and he dies and the package is delivered to Costa by Peter who starts working for him. This is when Catherine finds a good friend in Kirk Reynolds who is in love with her and wants to marry her but Catherine is a bit reluctant. She confides in him that her husband and his mistress attempted to kill her and were killed for it. While Kirk reassures her by saying that of the little he knows about Greek law he is confident that there law doesn’t sentence to death anyone charged on account of attempted murder but also adds that he will make sure by asking one of his acquaintance, Peter Demonides. He relates Catherine’s story to him and the next day he dies.
Then Spyros tries to destroy Costa by narrating this incident to a drug dealer, Tony Rizzoli and advices him to trick Costa into taking one of his drug shipments to USA. But Constantin Demiris kills Tony and destroys his shipment very cleverly and then threatens Spyros by telling him ¬¬that he will destroy him but will first take care of his sister. When Spyros tells this to Melina, she assures him by saying that she can take care of herself. Her brother’s house is attacked but he and his wife survive the attcack. This is when she becomes confident that Costa wants to destroy them. Hence, she kills herself and fakes it in such a way that it seems that Constantin Demiris has murdered her. While on the other side Costa has ordered the killing of Catherine Alexander. In lieu of the murder Costa gets arrested and the only one who can save him is Sypros Lambrou who can give an alibi to the murder but he won’t do so as he detests Constantin Demiris and wants him dead. This is when Napoleon Chotas makes a reappearance after mysteriously surviving the fire which burned his house and fights the case of Constantine Demeiris. He convinces Spyros into giving witness to Costa saying that instead of having him dead it will be better if he forces him to live in poverty and this will be done by Costa as he will transfer all the assets of his company to Spyros. But on the other hand Costa and Chotas had already planned that the assets of Costa’s company will first be shifted to a firm owned by Napoleon Chotas himself.
On the other hand Catherine goes into psychoanalysis but in turn falls in love with the doctor Alan Hamilton who also falls in love with her. This is when 3 men arrive in London to study the operation taking place there and they all seem pretty weird and she has a bad feeling about them but it is not until she is to be killed that she realizes that it is not the 3 men but the office boy who came along with them who has come to kill her. He tries to kill her by locking and tying her up in the basement and turning up the thermostat of the boiler which will explode when it reaches 400 degree Celsius but she manages to survive by hiding in the bomb shelter. She comes to know the truth about Costa and also the fact that he was convicted. She marries Alan.
While Constantin Demiris is being tried for a murder he didn’t commit but on the last day of the gruesome 10 day trial Spyros Lambrou witnesses setting Constantin Demiris free. It is on the way to Napaleon’s home does he confide in Costa that even he liked Noelle Page but he still helped him in killing her and starts driving faster and also tells him that he has donated all the assets of his company to the convent and that is when he flings the car over the cliff down the steep mountainside.
“ The car tumbles end over end until it finally crashes in the sea. There is a tremendous explosion and then a deep silence. It was over.” (quoted from the book Memories of Midnight by Sidney Sheldon)
It is there in Greece that she realizes that her husband and his mistress tried to kill her but didn’t succeed as she was still alive. She remembers them trying to drown her and this becomes a recurring dream. When she tells all this to Costa, he is a bit angry as he didn’t want her uncovering her past but anyway he wishes to dispose her of as she is the last link to the case in which Larry and Noelle were wrongly accused of killing her. So he sends her off to London to work there in one of his various offices.
Constantin Demiris seems like a benefactor to Catherine as she has no knowledge of what Constantin Demiris has in plan for her.
Trouble starts brewing when Frederick Stavros starts feeling guilty for sending Larry and Noelle to their death as he was their lawyer and they were all tricked into pleading guilty by Napoleon Chotas but he dies shortly after confiding this news to a priest who after his death tells this news to a employee working in the office of Spyros Lambrou who is the brother of Costa’s wife Melina. This news reaches Spyros Lambrou who uses this news to destroy Costa as Costa had maltreated his wife, Spyros’ sister.
This is when Napoleon Chotas starts fearing his own death and hence leaves a package with a prosecuting attorney Peter Demonides and sends a tape referring to this to Costa but the next day Chotas’ house is burned and he dies and the package is delivered to Costa by Peter who starts working for him. This is when Catherine finds a good friend in Kirk Reynolds who is in love with her and wants to marry her but Catherine is a bit reluctant. She confides in him that her husband and his mistress attempted to kill her and were killed for it. While Kirk reassures her by saying that of the little he knows about Greek law he is confident that there law doesn’t sentence to death anyone charged on account of attempted murder but also adds that he will make sure by asking one of his acquaintance, Peter Demonides. He relates Catherine’s story to him and the next day he dies.
Then Spyros tries to destroy Costa by narrating this incident to a drug dealer, Tony Rizzoli and advices him to trick Costa into taking one of his drug shipments to USA. But Constantin Demiris kills Tony and destroys his shipment very cleverly and then threatens Spyros by telling him ¬¬that he will destroy him but will first take care of his sister. When Spyros tells this to Melina, she assures him by saying that she can take care of herself. Her brother’s house is attacked but he and his wife survive the attcack. This is when she becomes confident that Costa wants to destroy them. Hence, she kills herself and fakes it in such a way that it seems that Constantin Demiris has murdered her. While on the other side Costa has ordered the killing of Catherine Alexander. In lieu of the murder Costa gets arrested and the only one who can save him is Sypros Lambrou who can give an alibi to the murder but he won’t do so as he detests Constantin Demiris and wants him dead. This is when Napoleon Chotas makes a reappearance after mysteriously surviving the fire which burned his house and fights the case of Constantine Demeiris. He convinces Spyros into giving witness to Costa saying that instead of having him dead it will be better if he forces him to live in poverty and this will be done by Costa as he will transfer all the assets of his company to Spyros. But on the other hand Costa and Chotas had already planned that the assets of Costa’s company will first be shifted to a firm owned by Napoleon Chotas himself.
On the other hand Catherine goes into psychoanalysis but in turn falls in love with the doctor Alan Hamilton who also falls in love with her. This is when 3 men arrive in London to study the operation taking place there and they all seem pretty weird and she has a bad feeling about them but it is not until she is to be killed that she realizes that it is not the 3 men but the office boy who came along with them who has come to kill her. He tries to kill her by locking and tying her up in the basement and turning up the thermostat of the boiler which will explode when it reaches 400 degree Celsius but she manages to survive by hiding in the bomb shelter. She comes to know the truth about Costa and also the fact that he was convicted. She marries Alan.
While Constantin Demiris is being tried for a murder he didn’t commit but on the last day of the gruesome 10 day trial Spyros Lambrou witnesses setting Constantin Demiris free. It is on the way to Napaleon’s home does he confide in Costa that even he liked Noelle Page but he still helped him in killing her and starts driving faster and also tells him that he has donated all the assets of his company to the convent and that is when he flings the car over the cliff down the steep mountainside.
“ The car tumbles end over end until it finally crashes in the sea. There is a tremendous explosion and then a deep silence. It was over.” (quoted from the book Memories of Midnight by Sidney Sheldon)