Endless Night

Endless Night
Agatha Christie

Agatha Christie’s disturbing 1960s mystery thriller, reissued with a striking cover designed to appeal to the latest generation of Agatha Christie fans and book lovers.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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First published in Great Britain by Collins, The Crime Club 1967

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Source ISBN: 9780008196394

Ebook Edition © February 2017 ISBN: 9780007422326

Version: 2017-04-11

Dedication (#ulink_09cb62e2-dde4-5358-a6a0-f8e6d1db61a9)

To Nora Prichard

from whom I first heard

the legend of Gipsy’s Acre

Epigraph (#ulink_360bb850-e4fb-58ba-b115-bf00b739a644)

Every Night and every Morn

Some to Misery are born.

Every Morn and every Night

Some are born to Sweet Delight,

Some are born to Sweet Delight,

Some are born to Endless Night,

William Blake

Auguries of Innocence

Contents

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Title Page (#u4e305e17-b52f-5a77-9408-41f2b55ae0ab)

Copyright (#u71452de5-80ce-5020-8500-5fb2a3dde727)

Dedication (#ucd375dae-54d2-5da5-9a05-f12de1c033d6)

Epigraph (#u7c76dfa0-f192-5280-87be-3d979f4ce920)

Book I (#u95a8ef1a-cd5a-5703-bde1-a2d169c17cd8)

Chapter 1 (#uf6ff7f93-a673-5d28-8460-7d106bbed83c)

Chapter 2 (#u2dcb6d81-d6bf-5f31-b0bf-85e4b230af47)

Chapter 3 (#u350bdad4-e382-5177-b5d7-0e87cce1f6ed)

Chapter 4 (#u06e4b6cb-49ed-5a6f-b62b-73cbe0619578)

Chapter 5 (#u0ef903cb-f08c-546c-93b4-e935f67eac34)

Chapter 6 (#u590d3b5c-1864-58dc-b03c-946fd1ba02f3)

Chapter 7 (#u3a0c0da1-fad6-57d7-9f49-439d97f6c8f6)

Chapter 8 (#u65d10282-1d67-5596-a07a-778ff264edd0)

Book II (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 9 (#litres_trial_promo)