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Endless Night by Agatha Christie
4.0

"Endless Night" starts as a class inequality tale à la Maupassant or Zola - story of a working class boy meeting and marrying a wealthy innocent girl; trying to build a life together against the odds.

For a solid 70% of the novel, it seems to be an intimate story about the world of this girl's immense wealth, usually unknown to the common citizen, and the boy suffering with lack of boundaries from their surroundings. He just wants to marry her, right? Why is everything so complicated? A few strange things happen, but overall a rather dull domestic story & social commentary for Agatha Christie... Until death happens.

And when death happens, everything unfolds gloriously. As one of her last novels, one could read this as a conclusion to her career - for all those murders she portrayed, what do we know about the killer? What does it mean to kill? Why are we so drawn to death?