Endless Night

Endless Night is a crime novel by Agatha Christie, first published in the UK by the Collins Crime Club on 30 October 1967[1] and in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company the following year. It was one of her favourites of her own works and received some of the warmest critical notices of her career upon publication. The story begins with Michael Rodgers, a young twenty-two year old, telling us about his time as a chauffeur and how he met the architect Rudolph Santonix. He plans to one day have a house built by Santonix. Michael is poor though, and so can't afford to hire Santonix to build the house he wants. Michael explains that he isn't content doing just one thing and so has held down many different jobs over the years. One day he wants to settle down in his dream house with his dream woman, but for now he can't imagine settling down. Michael is walking along a village road near the Gipsy's Acre property one day when he falls in love with the grounds. He fantasizes about one day building a house there with the woman he loves. Curious to see what an auction is like, he goes to the auction for the acre. Several people are interested in buying it, but the bid doesn't go high enough and no one ends up getting the property rights. Michael suspects that this is because of the supposed curse over the property....