Endless Night: Agatha Christie's favourite still has shock factor

Christie’s 1967 novel is less a ‘whodunnit’ than a ‘who gonna get done’ – so when the body does appear, it is not a surprise

  • Warning: spoilers for the end of Endless Night

Agatha Christie may have been 76 when she wrote Endless Night, and omore than 50 novels into her remarkable career, but she could still spring a good surprise. When picking up a book by a writer famous for producing murder mysteries, you expect the unexpected I was expecting this novel to be formulaic and unchallenging – an early death, a puzzle to solve and not much more.

Happily, Endless Night did not fulfil those expectations. There isn’t even an explicit reference to a body until two thirds in. Endless Night isn’t so much a “whodunnit”, as a “who gonna get done”.

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