Made-to-measure murder

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Mord nach Maß ( Murder made to measure , first edition in Swiss spelling, English original title Endless Night ) is the 58th detective novel by Agatha Christie . It first appeared in the UK on October 30, 1967 at the Collins Crime Club and the following year in the US at Dodd, Mead and Company . The Scherz Verlag (Bern / Munich / Vienna) published the German first edition in 1969 in the translation by Jutta Wannenmacher, which is still used today.

Explanation of the title of the novel

The title comes from William Blake's Auguries of Innocence :

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.

action

Ambitious young man and storyteller, Michael Rogers falls in love with the wealthy American heiress Fenella Guteman (Ellie) at first sight the first time he sees her on the property he plans to buy. The country is called "Gipsy's Acre" by the locals. It is beautifully located with a view over the sea and a dark fir forest. He can quickly win Ellie's heart and, with her money, Gipsy's Acre too. Despite warnings that a curse is looming over the country, the young couple take up residence there and tragedy looms. Ellie dies after an accident. In the end, after a rapid twist, Michael turns out to be the killer - a game that Christie played with the reader in her famous novel Alibi .

people

  • Ellie Guteman, a wealthy heiress
  • Michael Rogers, her husband
  • Stanford Lloyd, Ellie's attorney
  • Andrew Lippincott, Ellie's attorney
  • Cora van Stuyvesant, Ellie's stepmother
  • Reuben Pardoe, cousin of Ellie
  • Greta Andersen, Ellie's friend
  • Esther Lee, a gypsy
  • Major Phillpot, Justice of the Peace at Kingston Bishop
  • Claudia Hardcastle, sister of Rudolf Santonix
  • Rudolf Santonix, architect

Film adaptations

"Murder made to measure" (1972)

The novel was made into a film in 1972 with Hayley Mills , Britt Ekland , Per Oscarsson , Hywel Bennett and George Sanders (who died of suicide before the film was released). Christie is reported to have had strong reservations about the sex scenes that were added to liven up the plot.

"Endless Night" (2013)

The novel was filmed as the last film in the remake of all Marple stories in the ITV series Agatha Christie's Marple . Apart from the fact that the book is not a Miss Marple story, the film otherwise follows the template exactly.

Major expenses

  • 1967: Collins Crime Club (London), October 30, 1967
  • 1968: Dodd Mead and Company (New York), 1968
  • 1969: German first edition by Scherz Verlag

Audio books

  • 2003: Made-to-measure murder. (5 CDs): only unabridged reading. Speaker: Manfred Fenner. Director: Hans Eckardt. Translation from English by Jutta Wannenmacher. Publishing house and studio for audio book productions (Marburg)
  • 2008: Made-to-measure murder. (3 CDs): abridged reading. Translated from the English by Tanja Handels. Read by Peter Veit. Director: Toni Nirschl. The Hörverlag (Munich)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The Observer October 29, 1927 (Page 26)
  2. ↑ John Cooper and BA Pyke. Detective Fiction - the collector's guide : Second Edition (Pages 82 and 87) Scholar Press. 1994. ISBN 0-85967-991-8
  3. ↑ American Tribute to Agatha Christie
  4. ↑ a b German first edition in the catalog of the German National Library
  5. ↑ Original text in Wikisource
  6. ↑ Audiobook (complete) in the catalog of the German National Library
  7. ^ Audiobook (licensed) in the catalog of the German National Library
Works by Agatha Christie


Novels with
Hercule Poirot

The Missing Link in the Chain  (1920) • Murder on the Golf Course  (1923) • Alibi  (1926) • The Big Four  (1927) • The Blue Express  (1928) • The House on the Dune  (1932) • Thirteen at Table  ( 1933) • Murder on the Orient Express  (1934) • Nicotine  (1935) • Death in the clouds  (1935) • The murders of Mr ABC  (1936) • Murder in Mesopotamia  (1936) • With open cards  (1936) • Death on the Nile  (1937) • The dog playing the ball  (1937) • Death awaits  (1938) • Hercule Poirot's Christmas  (1938) • Morphine  (1940) • The secret of the buckled shoes  (1940) • Evil under the sun  (1941) • The Unfinished Portrait  (1942) • The Owl House  (1946) • The Death Whirlwind  (1948) • Four Women and a Murder  (1951) • The Wax Bouquet  (1953) • The Kleptomaniac  (1955) • Reunion with Mrs. Oliver  (1956) • The Cat in the Dovecote  (1959) • On a Double Track  (1963) • The Forgetful Murderess  (1966) • The Snow White Party  (1969) • Elephants Don't Forget  (1972) • Curtain  (1975)

Novels with
the Beresfords

A Dangerous Adversary  (1922) • Little Red Riding Hood and the Big Bad Wolf  (1941) • Lots of charming old ladies  (1968) • Age does not protect against ingenuity  (1973)

Novels with
Miss Marple

Murder in the Rectory  (1930) • The Dead in the Library  (1942) • The Shadow Hand  (1943) • A Murder Is Announced  (1950) • Fata Morgana  (1952) • The Secret of the Gold Mine  (1953) • 4:50 p.m. from Paddington  ( 1957) • Murder in the Mirror  (1962) • Caribbean Affair  (1964) • Bertrams Hotel  (1965) • Fate in Person  (1971) • Rough Rest  (1976)

Novels with
fellow investigators

The Man in the Brown Suit  (1924) • The Count's Memoirs  (1925) • The Last Joker  (1929) • The Secret of Sittaford  (1931) • A Step into the Void  (1934) • The Dying in Wychwood  (1939) • And then There was no more  (1939) • Shortly before midnight  (1944) • Avenging ghosts  (1944) • Hydrocyanic acid  (1945) • The crooked house  (1949) • They came to Baghdad  (1951) • The uncanny way  (1954) • Fatal error  ( 1958) • The pale horse  (1961) • Murder made to measure  (1967) • Passenger to Frankfurt  (1970)

Anthologies

Poirot accounts  (1924) • Pandora's Box  (1929) • The Strange Mister Quin  (1930) • The Tuesday Night Club  (1932) • The Dog of Death  (1933) • Something's Lazy  (1934) • Parker Pyne Investigates  ( 1934) • Hercule Poirot Never Sleeps  (1937) • The Labor of Hercules  (1947) • A Diplomatic Incident  (1960) • Poirot's First Cases  (1974) • Miss Marple's Last Cases  (1979) • The Murderous Tea Round  (1991) • As long as it bright is  (1997)