| | Endless Night (G K Hall's Agatha Christie Series) |  | Author: Agatha Christie
Publisher: G K Hall & Co
Category: Book
List Price: $20.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  41 reviews
Sales Rank: 3162282
Format: Large Print
Media: Hardcover
Edition: Lrg
Pages: 324
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.4
Dimensions (in): 9.5 x 6.5 x 0.9
ISBN: 0816145474
Dewey Decimal Number: 823.912
EAN: 9780816145478
ASIN: 0816145474
Publication Date: June 1989
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Condition: Serving Book Lovers Since 1980. Dust Jacket Condition: GOOD
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Agatha Christie's genius for detective fiction is unparalleled. Her worldwide popularity is phenomenal, her characters engaging, her plots spellbinding. No one knows the human heart--or the dark passions that can stop it--better than Agatha Christie. She is truly the one and only Queen of Crime.Endless Night Michael Rogers dreams of a rich, beautiful wife and a perfectly designed house. He finds the woman, and they build the house. Then sudden death strikes.
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 Agatha Christie at her best July 6, 2008
If I could use one word to describe the overall tone of this book, it would be...haunting. And in the end, disturbing. But oh so worth the read! I won't bore you with the details of the plot, but trust me. This book will stay with you long after you read it. It's definitely not in the same vein as Christie's other works, but perhaps all the more brilliant for it. A must read, if you are a fan of mystery novels in any sense.
A Masterpiece May 26, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
You must read this book. It is completely unlike any of her other mysteries and will haunt you for days afterwards. It made me reflect about myself like no other novel I've ever read. If you thought Agatha Christie was already a great author before, just wait until you read this.
WILL SOMEONE LET THE WOMAN SPEAK? March 25, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
What "improvements" have been made for the St. Martin's Minotaur edition? There are already major differences in punctuation, word choices, and scene breaks between the original Collins and Dodd Mead editions of this novel. There are further differences between the Dodd Mead editions republished by Random House/Avenel and the Dodd Mead editions republished by Simon & Shuster/Pocket. There are further additions still in the Signet, Bantam, Berkley, and Black Dog & Leventhal editions. For every publishing house putting out her works, there seem to be a new batch of editors altering Agatha Christie's words and the sound of her voice. What's the matter with these publishers? Whose voice do they think we want to hear when we sit down to a novel by Agatha Christie? And what will she sound like twenty years from now? It's frightening that her estate has failed to see the importance of guarding her words as she wrote them. Please tell me I'm not the only one here who senses that a crime has been committed.
Agatha Christie's "Endless Night" February 17, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This mystery is a small masterpiece. Though it doesn't feature Christie's beloved detectives, Miss Marple and Hercule Poirot -- in fact, it doesn't have a detective in it at all--it's a stunning depiction of what M. Poirot is fond of calling "the psychology" of a murderer. This isn't a book to begin with if you've never read any Christie, but if you're already a fan, it's definitely worth a read. (Christie, in her own quiet way, was also quite a social commentator, and this book, along with some of her others written in this period, will show you what she thought of the "sixties.")
A great novel, if not a great mystery February 14, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Endless Night is not Agatha Christie's best mystery, nor is it ranked among the favorites by Agatha Christie fans. Judged by the standards of the genre it is easily dismissed, most commonly with a reference to her reuse of a plot technique she introduced many years earlier. But whatever it lacks as a mystery, Endless Night is among the best stories Christie ever wrote.
While Christie's own legacy may have precluded her branching out creatively, if indeed she had any desire to do so, her popularity afforded her over half a century to hone her skills as a writer. In terms of the depth of her characters, Endless Night is the pinnacle of her career. In contrast to her earlier works where a cast of stock characters are carried by a continuous stream of plot twists and (in most cases) the strong central character of Poirot or Miss Marple, Endless Night gives us characters than can stand on their own. The tragic central figure of Michael Rogers is illuminated by the plot not simply swept along as a piece of it.
At heart this story is not a murder mystery but a tragedy. Having purchased enough Agatha Christie books to fill three shelves I mean no disrespect when I say that I am certain that an element of her massive sales lies in the fact that most of her books are not ideal for a second reading, at least until sufficient time has passed that the details of the plot have been forgotten. But by 1967 Christie had matured as a writer and gave us Endless Night, a novel that resonates all the more deeply upon a second reading. It is no wonder that she listed it among her personal favorites.
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