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Towards Zero
By (Author) Agatha Christie
HarperCollins Publishers
HarperCollins
14th March 2025
7th November 2024
Special edition
United Kingdom
General
Fiction
Classic crime and mystery fiction
Thriller / suspense fiction
Crime and mystery: private investigator / amateur detectives
Crime and mystery: women sleuths
Narrative theme: Death, grief, loss
Hardback
256
Width 135mm, Height 204mm, Spine 25mm
300g
An explosive love triangle, a formidable matriarch and a house party of enemies. All drawn inexorably Towards Zero. Now Anjelica Huston and a star-studded cast feature in a brand new BBC adaptation of Agatha Christie's tense, ingenious novel. Read it before you see it!
After a scandalous celebrity divorce, British tennis star Nevile Strange and his ex-wife Audrey make the unthinkable decision to spend a summer together at Gulls Point, their childhood home and the coastal estate of Nevile's aunt, Lady Tressilian.
With unfinished business between the former childhood sweethearts, plus the presence of Neviles new wife Kay, tensions are running high. Add to this a long-suffering ladys companion, a mysterious gentlemans valet, an exiled cousin with a grudge, a venerable family lawyer, an inquisitive orphan and a French con man, and soon there will be murder. A troubled detective must rediscover his purpose to untangle a toxic web of jealousy, deceit and dysfunction. Can he solve the crime before another victim meets their death
Now you can read Agatha Christie's original novel on which this new TV sensation is based in this gorgeous Special Edition hardback.
Masterly storytelling
Times Literary Supplement
Agatha Christie has surpassed herself
New York Times
Agatha Christie was born in Torquay in 1890 and became, quite simply, the best-selling novelist in history. Her first novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, written towards the end of the First World War, introduced us to Hercule Poirot, who was to become the most popular detective in crime fiction since Sherlock Holmes. She is known throughout the world as the Queen of Crime. Her books have sold over a billion copies in the English language and another billion in over 100 foreign countries. She is the author of 80 crime novels and short story collections, 19 plays, and six novels under the name of Mary Westmacott.