Endless night - Agatha Christie

The site of the house called The Towers had once been known as Gipsy's Acre. When it was sold Michael Rogers went to the auction, though he hadn't any money. His dream was of a new house on the old site, to be built by his brilliant young architect friend.

It was at Gipsy's Acre that Michael first saw the girl he was to marry; and the account of Michael's courting of Ellie, their growing attraction for each other, is the starting point of a drama that ends in the revelation of a truly monstrous crime. 

In this doom-laden story, different in kind from the experiences of Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple, all the author's great gifts of subtlety and interpretation are on full display. Here is something new and different - something extraordinarily exciting.