Sidney Sheldon..

"I try to write my books so the reader can't put them down," he explained
in a 1982 interview. "I try to construct them so when the reader gets to the end
of a chapter, he or she has to read just one more chapter. It's the technique of
the old Saturday afternoon serial: leave the guy hanging on the edge of the
cliff at the end of the chapter."

I am sure most of the early novel-reading sessions would have included atleast one of his books. So Mr SS.. so long and thanks for all those stories!!!