Christie, Agatha - Endless Night (1967)

Review by Nick Fuller

4/5

One of Christie's darkest and most disturbing novels. Although dangerously close to Gothic romance — young newly-weds buy a house on haunted and cursed land, and their experiences culminate in tragedy — the story is particularly compelling, and the characterisation, particularly of the amiable working-class narrator, superb. The dénouement, in which all one's expectations are subverted is deeply shocking. The ending recalls Flann O'Brien's The Third Policeman.

Note similarities to Death on the Nile.