Towards Zero

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Towards Zero (published in 1943), is a detective fiction novel by Agatha Christie. It is the last to feature her recurring character of Superintendent Battle.

Plot

A party gather at the home of an elderly widow where past events - such as a suicide attempt, a secret romance and an accusation of theft - come to a dramatic conclusion.

Stage version

In 1966, Christie adapted the book into a play.

Agatha Christie
Detectives
Hercule Poirot | Miss Marple | Tommy and Tuppence | Ariadne Oliver | Arthur Hastings | Chief Inspector Japp
Novels
The Mysterious Affair at Styles | The Secret Adversary | Murder on the Links | The Man in the Brown Suit | The Secret of Chimneys | The Murder of Roger Ackroyd | The Big Four | The Mystery of the Blue Train | The Seven Dials Mystery | The Murder at the Vicarage | The Sittaford Mystery | Peril at End House | Lord Edgware Dies | Murder on the Orient Express | Three Act Tragedy | Why Didn't They Ask Evans? | Death in the Clouds | The A.B.C. Murders | Murder in Mesopotamia | Cards on the Table | Death on the Nile | Dumb Witness | Appointment with Death | And Then There Were None | Murder is Easy | Hercule Poirot's Christmas | Sad Cypress | Evil Under the Sun | N or M? | One, Two, Buckle My Shoe | The Body in the Library | Five Little Pigs | The Moving Finger | Towards Zero | Sparkling Cyanide | Death Comes as the End | The Hollow | Taken at the Flood | Crooked House | A Murder is Announced | They Came to Baghdad | Mrs McGinty's Dead | They Do It with Mirrors | A Pocket Full of Rye | After the Funeral | Hickory Dickory Dock | Destination Unknown | Dead Man's Folly | 4.50 From Paddington | Ordeal by Innocence | Cat Among the Pigeons | The Pale Horse | The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side | The Clocks | A Caribbean Mystery | At Bertram's Hotel | Third Girl | Endless Night | By The Pricking of My Thumbs | Hallowe'en Party | Passenger to Frankfurt | Nemesis | Elephants Can Remember | Postern of Fate | Curtain | Sleeping Murder
as Mary Westmacott
Giant's Bread | Unfinished Portrait | Absent in the Spring | The Rose and the Yew Tree | A Daughter's a Daughter | The Burden
Short story collections
Poirot Investigates | Partners in Crime | The Mysterious Mr. Quin | The Hound of Death | The Thirteen Problems | Parker Pyne Investigates | The Listerdale Mystery | Murder in the Mews | The Regatta Mystery | The Labours of Hercules | Poirot's Early Cases
Plays
Akhnaton | The Mousetrap | Witness for the Prosecution | Verdict | Rule of Three | Fiddlers Three