One of Agatha Christie’s own 10 favorite novels, Towards Zero sets Superintendent Fight and Inspector Leach on the case as they investigate the murder of an elderly widow.

What is the connection among a failed suicide attempt, a wrongful accusation of theft against a schoolgirl, and the romantic life of the famous tennis participant?

Towards the casual observer, apparently nothing. But when a residence party gathers at Gull’s Point, the seaside house of an elderly widow, earlier events come to a dramatic mind. As Superintendent Fight discovers, it is all part of a carefully laid plan-for murder.