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Endless Night
by Agatha Christie
Michael Rogers is a chauffeur who becomes taken with a piece of property called Gipsy's Acre. Unless his circumstances, read financial status, changes the property is out of his reach. But all that changes when he meets heiress Ellie Guteman. Their whirlwind romance results in Mike's dream home being built at Gipsy's Acre and Ellie's family slightly up in arms over their quick marriage. But a fortune given Ellie upon their first meeting acts as an oppressive blanket over their new house and new life together. An old gypsy who lives in the area keeps appearing and giving Ellie warnings about continuing to live at Gipsy's Acre. Additionally, Mike doesn't like Ellie's companion, Greta, and sees her as an interloper in his marriage to Ellie. Things are just beginning to settle down when tragedy strikes and Mike is left with Ellie's fortune but without Ellie herself.
This stand-alone from Christie is written in the voice of Michael Rogers. There are a few interesting things about this title. It was a personal favorite of Christies's, it was written pretty late in her career, instead of the normal 3 months to write it only took her 6 weeks to write, and it was very well-received. Indeed, it is a favorite of mine for sure. It is not at all written in the style she used to craft Poirot and Marple mysteries or even other stand-alone's. It is altogether different and probably served as an inspiration to other authors that they could utilize different writing styles and succeed. Francis Iles (née Anthony Berkeley Cox) said in his 1967 The Guardian review, "The old maestrina of the crime-novel (or whatever is the female of 'maestro') pulls yet another out of her inexhaustible bag with Endless Night, quite different in tone from her usual work. It is impossible to say much about the story without giving away vital secrets: sufficient to warn the reader that if he should think this is a romance he couldn't be more mistaken, and the crashing, not to say horrific suspense at the end is perhaps the most devastating that this surpriseful author has ever brought off."
This stand-alone from Christie is written in the voice of Michael Rogers. There are a few interesting things about this title. It was a personal favorite of Christies's, it was written pretty late in her career, instead of the normal 3 months to write it only took her 6 weeks to write, and it was very well-received. Indeed, it is a favorite of mine for sure. It is not at all written in the style she used to craft Poirot and Marple mysteries or even other stand-alone's. It is altogether different and probably served as an inspiration to other authors that they could utilize different writing styles and succeed. Francis Iles (née Anthony Berkeley Cox) said in his 1967 The Guardian review, "The old maestrina of the crime-novel (or whatever is the female of 'maestro') pulls yet another out of her inexhaustible bag with Endless Night, quite different in tone from her usual work. It is impossible to say much about the story without giving away vital secrets: sufficient to warn the reader that if he should think this is a romance he couldn't be more mistaken, and the crashing, not to say horrific suspense at the end is perhaps the most devastating that this surpriseful author has ever brought off."