Endless Night.

CHRISTIE, Agatha.

$9,800.00

Item Number: 142019

London: Collins Crime Club, 1967.

First edition of Christie’s masterful murder mystery; one of her personal favorites. Octavo, original boards. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “To John Agatha Christie Sept 1970.” Fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket. Jacket design by Kenneth Farnhill. Housed in a custom clamshell box by the Harcourt Bindery. Rare and desirable signed and inscribed.

One of Christie's favorites among her works, Endless Night was first published in the U.K. by the Collins Crime Club on October 30, 1967 and in the U.S. by Dodd, Mead and Company the following year. The work received some of the warmest critical reviews of Christies career upon publication. "The old maestrina of the crime-novel (or whatever is the female of 'maestro') pulls yet another out of her inexhaustible bag with Endless Night, quite different in tone from her usual work. It is impossible to say much about the story without giving away vital secrets: sufficient to warn the reader that if he should think this is a romance he couldn't be more mistaken, and the crashing, not to say horrific suspense at the end is perhaps the most devastating that this surpriseful author has ever brought off" (Francis Iles, The Guardian).