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Summary: One of Christie's best!
Review: "Endless Night", written late in Agatha Christie's career, shows well her gifts for clever plot lines and spare but effective characterizations, as well as Christie's solid ability to remain current to the times in which she wrote, which spanned the end of the World War I through the early 1970s. Much has been written about Christie's genius for constructing original puzzles, but her writing in books like this makes such expositions superfluous.The solution to this mystery is as ingenious as the solutions to the crimes in "Murder on the Orient Express", "The Murder of Roger Ackroyd", and "Ten Little Indians." This book is truly a mystery lover's delight. DO NOT READ ANY REVIEWS REVEALING THE PLOT DEVICE!!!! This is one of the true mystery novels that should be read for the delight of its construction!
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Summary: Far and away the best of her later books!
Review: "Endless Night" was written late in Christie's career (1967), yet it is one of the best things she ever wrote. The murder happens very late in the story, and Christie's ability to surprise her audience, even after fifty years, is as strong as ever. She does re-use old tricks (what magician does not?), but her sheer ingenuity is as evident here as in anything she ever wrote, and there is an atmosphere of evil about this one that Christie was not always able to create. Not to be missed!
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Summary: SEEMS UNFINISHED
Review: Based on the reviews here, I decided to read the book. While it is an interesting novel (albeit unconventional for Agatha Christie) and the characters are very well developed, it ends with far too many loose strings. There are many parts of the story left unexplained after the main mystery is solved. It seems as though Christie was on a deadline and didn't have time to tie it all together. Maybe it needed Poirot ...
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Summary: Definitely NOT a typical Christie...
Review: but wonderful in its own way. This is one of Christie's 'non-series' books - no Poirot, Miss Marple, Tommy and Tuppence etc. Also it is MUCH darker and more serious than her usual work, this is not one to give a 'younger or more sensitive reader'. It is, however, an example of just how talented an author Christie was, capable of much more than clever, formulistic detective stories. This moody, 1967 novel is told by Mike Rogers, a young man who drifted from job to job looking for something, he wasn't sure of just what. He found his passion in a place, Gipsy Acre, a piece of ground that he wanted to buy and build a marvelous house on, a house designed by a famous architect he had met. The problem was that Mike had no money, and very little chance of ever getting the kind of money he would need for this dream. By chance he met a beautiful young woman who happened to be fabulously wealthy. They fell in love, married and.......well, read the book. Again, this is definitely not a 'cozy' mystery, it is dark, disturbing and scary. It is one of those books that will stay with you and haunt you for years to come. As with all Christies the clues are all there for you to follow, you may or may not guess the killer and there is definitely a Christie twist at the finish.
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Summary: Definitely NOT a typical Christie...
Review: but wonderful in its own way. This is one of Christie's 'non-series' books - no Poirot, Miss Marple, Tommy and Tuppence etc. Also it is MUCH darker and more serious than her usual work, this is not one to give a 'younger or more sensitive reader'. It is, however, an example of just how talented an author Christie was, capable of much more than clever, formulistic detective stories. This moody, 1967 novel is told by Mike Rogers, a young man who drifted from job to job looking for something, he wasn't sure of just what. He found his passion in a place, Gipsy Acre, a piece of ground that he wanted to buy and build a marvelous house on, a house designed by a famous architect he had met. The problem was that Mike had no money, and very little chance of ever getting the kind of money he would need for this dream. By chance he met a beautiful young woman who happened to be fabulously wealthy. They fell in love, married and.......well, read the book. Again, this is definitely not a 'cozy' mystery, it is dark, disturbing and scary. It is one of those books that will stay with you and haunt you for years to come. As with all Christies the clues are all there for you to follow, you may or may not guess the killer and there is definitely a Christie twist at the finish.
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Summary: Christie Delivers In a Most Unusual and Unexpected Manner
Review: Completely different from any of her other books, this is the story of a psychopathic killer born to "endless night." Chapter by chapter, we see the desires and motivations of the character unfold. Be prepared for an Agatha Christie with no detection, but spell-binding suspense that entertains completely.
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Summary: Death on Gipsy's Acre
Review: Critics tend to debate what era can most appropriately be called Agatha Christie's "golden era"--and there is much to be said for her work in the 1930s, the 1940s, and the 1950s. But like her earliest works of the 1920s, her later works of the 1960s are negelected. And in the case of ENDLESS NIGHT this is an oversight indeed. ENDLESS NIGHT presents us with Mike, a restless young man who has drifted from job to job without seeming to find any true satisfaction--and a young man who is fascinated by "Gipsy's Acre," a plot of land in rural England said to be cursed by the Gipsies who once lived there and who were driven away. While walking the property, which has come up for sale, he meets an attractive young American woman, and a whirlwind courtship ensues. It is not until well into the relationship that the woman, Ellie, discloses that she is rich. And not just rich: she is the heiress to a fabulous fortune. The two marry and hire a noted architect to construct the perfect home on Gipsy's Acre--but no sooner are they installed then the property's legendary curse begins to unfold. A local gipsy woman warns them of bad luck; rocks are flung through windows; a bird is found pinned to the front door with a dagger. And they are surrounded by Ellie's relatives and business relations, all of whom seem to have hidden agendas and none of whom like the fact that Ellie has been torn from their control. Many Christie novels can be read in a single sitting, but ENDLESS NIGHT has an unusually slow build--and Christie defies her detractors, who often accused her of purely mechanical construction, by creating an atmosphere that collects into deepest darkness before the novel's startling conclusion. As she often did, Christie lifts a plot twist from a previous novel for this later tale, and those who have read her more famous books may spot the trick; even so, this is not a copy of an earlier work, for the device upon which the inevitable crime hangs is used in a remarkably different way, and instead of the neatly drawn crime-detection-solution path of most of her works, ENDLESS NIGHT is a multiple character study that gradually descends into a Hitchcockian horror. Perhaps the finest of her late work, and strongly recommended. --GFT (Amazon.com Reviewer)--
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Summary: Death on Gipsy's Acre
Review: Critics tend to debate what era can most appropriately be called Agatha Christie's "golden era"--and there is much to be said for her work in the 1930s, the 1940s, and the 1950s. But like her earliest works of the 1920s, her later works of the 1960s are negelected. And in the case of ENDLESS NIGHT this is an oversight indeed. ENDLESS NIGHT presents us with Mike, a restless young man who has drifted from job to job without seeming to find any true satisfaction--and a young man who is fascinated by "Gipsy's Acre," a plot of land in rural England said to be cursed by the Gipsies who once lived there and who were driven away. While walking the property, which has come up for sale, he meets an attractive young American woman, and a whirlwind courtship ensues. It is not until well into the relationship that the woman, Ellie, discloses that she is rich. And not just rich: she is the heiress to a fabulous fortune. The two marry and hire a noted architect to construct the perfect home on Gipsy's Acre--but no sooner are they installed then the property's legendary curse begins to unfold. A local gipsy woman warns them of bad luck; rocks are flung through windows; a bird is found pinned to the front door with a dagger. And they are surrounded by Ellie's relatives and business relations, all of whom seem to have hidden agendas and none of whom like the fact that Ellie has been torn from their control. Many Christie novels can be read in a single sitting, but ENDLESS NIGHT has an unusually slow build--and Christie defies her detractors, who often accused her of purely mechanical construction, by creating an atmosphere that collects into deepest darkness before the novel's startling conclusion. As she often did, Christie lifts a plot twist from a previous novel for this later tale, and those who have read her more famous books may spot the trick; even so, this is not a copy of an earlier work, for the device upon which the inevitable crime hangs is used in a remarkably different way, and instead of the neatly drawn crime-detection-solution path of most of her works, ENDLESS NIGHT is a multiple character study that gradually descends into a Hitchcockian horror. Perhaps the finest of her late work, and strongly recommended. --GFT (Amazon.com Reviewer)--
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Summary: Later work from A .C
Review: Dame Agatha has used here the same plot-formula as she used in her earlier book Three Blind Mices and Other Stories (one of those stories). The plot was exactly the same and as twisted and fooling. The whole athmosphere in the world of this book is somehow hopeless and depressing. I'd rather recommend you a truly masterpiece of A.C's many books TOWARDS ZERO. It was written in 1944 and in my opinion 40's was the golden era for Christie. Towards Zero is a story about what can happen with a twisted human mind. Extremely well written thriller...
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Summary: A Stunner
Review: Endless Night is not a typical Agatha Christie. If you're looking for Poirot or Miss Marple you won't find them here. Instead you get a moody, highly suspenseful almost gothic novel about a young man who dreams an impossible dream and makes it come true.....for a price. The ending is the most second most shocking one Christie ever wrote. My only complaint is with this edition. The picture on the cover hasn't a thing to do with the book.
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