Lady Tresselian invites several guests to stay at her seaside house at Gull's Point. Against her better judgment she has allowed her late husband's ward, handsome tennis ace Neville Strange, and his wife Kay to come at the same time as Neville's ex-wife Audrey. Other guests include Mary, Lady Tresselian's companion; Ted, Kay's ever-present friend; Thomas, a family friend who has just returned from spending the war in Africa and Lady Tresselian's old friend Lord Justice Treves. When death visits Gull's Point the house ...
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Lady Tresselian invites several guests to stay at her seaside house at Gull's Point. Against her better judgment she has allowed her late husband's ward, handsome tennis ace Neville Strange, and his wife Kay to come at the same time as Neville's ex-wife Audrey. Other guests include Mary, Lady Tresselian's companion; Ted, Kay's ever-present friend; Thomas, a family friend who has just returned from spending the war in Africa and Lady Tresselian's old friend Lord Justice Treves. When death visits Gull's Point the house party is thrown into turmoil. It is left to Scotland Yard's Detective Inspector Leach and Mr MacWhirter, an ex-detective who is also house guest, to solve the case.
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Fine. No Dj as issued. Fine condition. Planet Three Publishing, 2000-2004. Pictorial purple hardback with black borders(small scratch and nick on the edges of the cover) in fine condition, no Dj as issued. Nice and clean pages as new.192pp.
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Good in Good jacket. GC. Collins, 1986. Reprint edition. Black hardback(gilt lettering to the spine) with protected Dj(two small marks, some nicks, creases and scratches on the Dj cover and protected cover), both in good condition. Illustrated with a b/w map. Ex-Library book with a stamp. Clean pages but slightly tainted on the outer edges, small mark, some creases and nicks on the edges of the pages, small colour mark on the edges of the back cover, a couple of small marks inside the last blank page of the book. The book is in GC with some shelf wear.220pp. Price un-clipped.
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Fair. Ex-library book, usual markings. Hardback/Hardcover. Well read copy with some spine wear but still useable, colouring of page edges due to age. Quick dispatch from UK seller.
While not one of Christie's more famous works, Towards Zero deserves its fair share of aclaim. Unlike some of her stories, this one affords enough clues for the reader to be able to, in theory, solve the case, but it is so expertly contrived that it takes a mastermind to do so. It certainly has a very ghostly and spooky aura, which especially lends it to readers of intrigue.