This edition published 1st January 2026 by Harper Collins. Originall published 1967.
From the cover of the book:
Gipsy’s Acre was a truly beautiful upland site with views out to sea – and in Michael Rogers it stirred a child-like fantasy.
There, amongst the dark fir trees, he planned to build a house, find a girl and live happily ever after.
Yet, as he left the village, a shadow of menace hung over the land. For this was the place where accidents happened. Perhaps Michael should have heeded the locals’ warnings: ‘There’s no luck for them as meddles with Gipsy’s Acre.’
Michael Rogers is a man who is about to learn the true meaning of the old saying ‘In my end is my beginning…’
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Michael Rogers is a man who has never felt the need to follow convention and settle down. His life has been spent going with the flow, moving from job to job, and woman to woman, as his will takes him. But when he comes to beautiful Gypsy's Acre in Devon, he knows that this is the place he wants to build a house, and make a home with a woman he can truly love - and as luck would have it, chance has just brought to him heiress Fenella (Ellie) Guteman, the woman of his dreams.
Michael and Ellie fall in love, despite the gulf in their backgrounds, and settle down to happily married life in the new modern house they have built overlooking the sea. However, Gypsy's Acre comes with a curse. Those who live here are asking for darkness to come calling...
Endless Night is an Agatha Christie story like no other. Told in a single person narrative from Michael Rogers, who takes us through his history with Gypsy's Acre and the woman who brings him the fortune he needs to make his desires come true, it is pervaded with an overwhelming sense of menace from beginning to end. Rogers is compelling narrator, and he brings in a small and intimate cast of friends and relations around him and Ellie as he spins his tragic tale.
It is apparent from the very beginning of this story that a happy ending is not going to be on the cards, but Christie well and truly leads you down the garden path about the intentions of practically every character here with a bevy of red herrings, before the truth about what is going on hits you full-square between the eyes in the most shocking fashion. In fact the first time I read it, I had to go back over the text to make sure I had correctly had read the most devastating reveal from her devious imagination ever... it is a corker!
This is my choice for this month's #ReadChristie2026 #BiggestBestBeloved challenge of a Christie to read in one sitting, and it beautifully blurs the lines between love, lust, greed and obsession.
Endless Night is available to buy now in multiple formats.
About the author:
Agatha Christie is known throughout the world as the Queen of Crime. Her books have sold over a billion copies in English with another billion in over 70 foreign languages. She is the most widely published author of all time and in any language, outsold only by the Bible and Shakespeare. She is the author of 80 crime novels and short story collections, 20 plays, and six novels written under the name of Mary Westmacott.
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