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vincederr 's review for:
Endless Night
by Agatha Christie
This was a miss for me. This story centers around Gipsy’s acre a plot of land with an ominous history. Michael Rogers is a man who wants riches but despises hard and steady work. To his great fortune a wealthy woman falls in love with him. She buys the property and builds Michael’s dream house. The couple is plagued by the ill-omens of the village’s old gipsy woman. Following the death of Michael’s wife, the search is on for the gipsy woman. This book is about 90% love story and slice of life. The death occurs very late in the book and then there is no real investigation that happens. We get thrown back into slice of life. Christie uses one of her more famous tricks in this “mystery”, but to very ill effect. The mystery element of this book is completely lacking for most of the novel. When mystery occurs, it’s given no time to breathe. So far this is my least favorite Christie novel. She wrote this in six weeks, and I feel like it shows. It’s a great idea but needed firmer editing to get us to the mystery faster. Ultimately, it’s good and short, but as a mystery it missed the mark.
3 out of 5
3 out of 5