Agatha Christie – Towards Zero – First UK Edition 1944
£975.00
A first edition, first printing of ‘Towards Zero’ by Agatha Christie published by Collins in 1944. Original publisher’s orange cloth cloth, black titles to the spine. Very good book with one inscription to the pastedown which has transferred a little onto the inside of the front flap of the wrapper – remnants of previous owner’s bookplate below. Some light fading to the boards, otherwise very clean and bright in very good dustwrapper which is unclipped and is complete with some rubbing to the edges and to the corners.
Agatha Christie’s elegant late-period mystery, set at a seaside estate where old tensions quietly gather. A failed tennis star, his ex-wife, his new wife, and a circle of uneasy relations converge, while Superintendent Battle senses disaster before murder strikes. Christie shifts attention from “who did it” to how circumstances move toward a fatal point. The novel is cool, psychological, and cleverly structured, with mounting dread and a satisfyingly precise resolution.
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A first edition, first printing of ‘Towards Zero’ by Agatha Christie published by Collins in 1944. Original publisher’s orange cloth cloth, black titles to the spine. Very good book with one inscription to the pastedown which has transferred a little onto the inside of the front flap of the wrapper – remnants of previous owner’s bookplate below. Some light fading to the boards, otherwise very clean and bright in very good dustwrapper which is unclipped and is complete with some rubbing to the edges and to the corners.
Agatha Christie’s elegant late-period mystery, set at a seaside estate where old tensions quietly gather. A failed tennis star, his ex-wife, his new wife, and a circle of uneasy relations converge, while Superintendent Battle senses disaster before murder strikes. Christie shifts attention from “who did it” to how circumstances move toward a fatal point. The novel is cool, psychological, and cleverly structured, with mounting dread and a satisfyingly precise resolution.
