London, England, ca 1944Neville Strange 33 år og hans nye kone Kay Strange 23 år er på ferie hos Lady Camilla Tressilian, enken efter Nevilles gamle ven Sir Matthew. Although the ending seemed a little rushed and I didn’t totally embrace the romance angle, Towards Zero was exactly the read I needed at this time. Over the course of the book, I found myself suspecting one person or another and yet was still surprised at the final outcome. I found this to be a very entertaining “vintage” mystery. Battle is perhaps not one of Christie’s more colorful sleuths, but his solid steady ways are reassuring as he oversees the investigation. When the owner of the mansion, an eccentric old lady in her eighties, is found murdered in her bed, there are any number of suspects to be found among the guests and the servants and although this book does not benefit from the “little grey cells” of Poirot, or the sharp observations Miss Marple, it does have Superintendent Battle to put the clues together and to unravel the twists and turns that the story takes. Towards Zero is a “manor mystery”, where the crime is committed while there is a gathering of suspects at a country house, in this case Gull House which is perched high above the ocean upon seaside cliffs. After my last read, I needed a relaxing and delightfully escape into one of my favorite genres and what better choice could I have than an Agatha Christie mystery.
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