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Endless Night

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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.

 

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Jon said

at 9:04 am on Jan 27, 2010

Blurb: The site of the house called The Towers had once been known as Gipsy’s Acre. When it was sold Michael Rogers went to the auction, though he hadn’t any money. His dream was of a new house on the old site, to be built by his brilliant young architect friend.

It was at Gipsy’s Acre that Michael first saw the girl he was to marry; the account of Michael’s courting of Ellie, their growing attraction for each other, is the starting point of the drama that begins and ends at Gipsy’s Acre.

The story ends in the revelation of a monstrous crime, complete with all the paraphernalia that had been required to effect it.

A new novel by Agatha Christie is always a momentous event in the calendar of crime novel publishing. In this doom-laden story, different in kind from the experiences of Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple, all the author’s great gifts of subtlety and interpretation are on full display. Here, from the master of crime story-telling, is something new and different—something extraordinarily exciting.

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