Towards Zero

What is the connection among a failed suicide attempt, a wrongful accusation of theft against a schoolgirl, and the romantic life of a famous tennis player? To the casual observer, apparently nothing. But when a house party gathers at Gulls Point, the seaside home of an elderly widow, earlier events come to a dramatic head. As Superintendent Battle discovers, it is all part of a carefully laid planfor murder. Review Agatha Christie set the bar. (Katherine Hall Page, Agatha award-winning author of the Faith Fairchild Mysteries ) Agatha Christie has surpassed herself. (New York Times ) Masterly storytelling. (Times Literary Supplement (London) ) About the Author Agatha Christie is the most widely published author of all time and in any language, outsold only by the Bible and Shakespeare. Her books have sold over a billion copies in English and another billion in one hundred foreign countries. She is the author of eighty novels and short-story collections, nineteen plays, and six novels under the name Mary Westmacott. She died in 1976.