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One Poisoning.
One Strangling.
Endless Night
Gipsy's Acre is a truly beautiful upland site with views out to sea and, for Michael Rogers, it stirs a child-like fantasy. He wants to settle there, amongst the dark fir trees. Yet, as he leaves the village, a shadow of menace hangs over the land. This is the place where accidents happen. Perhaps Michael should have heeded the locals' warnings: "There's no luck for them as meddles with Gipsy's Acre."Year: 1967
Location: England
Location: England
Cast of characters
Greta Anderson, Dimitri Constantine, Claudia Hardcastle, Sergeant Keene, Mrs. Esther Lee, Andrew P. Lippincott, Stanford Lloyd, Major Phillpot, Gervase Phillpot, Mrs. Rogers, Ellie Guteman Rogers, Michael Rogers, Rudolf Santonix, Dr. Shaw, Cora Van StuyvesantPublishing history
Publishing: First published in 1967 by William Collins Sons & Co. in London, and in 1968 by Dodd, Mead & Co. in New York. Films: Released in 1972 by United Artists, 'Endless Night' starred Hayley Mills, Hywel Bennett, Britt Eklund, Per Oscarsson and George Sanders. The author was unhappy with the attempt to enliven the plot by infusing the movie with sexual scenes.Notes and reviews
Both the author and her husband claim in their respective autobiographies that the novel is among their favorites due to the "twisted" character who had a chance of turning to the good and instead chose evil. The book is dedicated to the author's relative Nora Prichard, who first told the author about a field called 'Gipsy's Acres' on the Welsh moors. The title of the novel is drawn from the Romantic poet William Blake's 'Auguries of Innocence', of which a key line is 'Some are born to Endless Night'.Murder methods:
One Fall / Pushed.One Poisoning.
One Strangling.