Endless Night (1967)
Blurb:
My review:
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 and SPOILER—HIGHLIGHT
TO READ the
likeable narrator is revealed to be an amoral psychopath (an effective
re-use of the Roger Ackroyd gambit), is deeply
shocking—the treatment of the ending recalls Flann O'Brien's The Third Policeman.
Note similarities to Death on the Nile.