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To Robert Graves
Since you are kind enough to say you like my stories, I venture to dedicate this book to you.
All I ask is that you should sternly restrain your critical faculties (doubtless sharpened by your recent excesses in that line!) when reading it
This is a story for your pleasure and not a candidate for Mr. Graves' literary pillory!
Your frend, Agatha Christie
First Published
- UK
- Collins, London, Jul. 1944
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- US
- Dodd Mead, New York, Jun. 1944
- Collier's Weekly, May.6-20 1944 as 'Come and Be Hanged'
Plot
(from HarperCollins "The Agatha Christie Collection" cover)
What is the connection between 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 houseparty gathers at Gull's Point, the seaside home of an elderly widow, earlier events come to a dramatic head.
Contents
Prologue: November 19th
"Open the Door and Here are the People"
Snow White and Red Rose
A fine Italian Hand
Zero Hour
Characters
Mary Aldin, Miss Amphrey, Susperintendent Battle, Sylvia Battle, Load Cornelly, Detective Sergeant Jones, Ted Latimer, Inspector James Leach, Andrew MacWhirter, Olive Parsons, Thomas Royde, Andrey Strange, Kay Strange, Nevile Strange, Lady Camilla Tressilian, Mr. Treves
Play
- Towards Zero
- dramatised by herself and Gerald Verner
- at the St.James's Theatre, London, 1956.
- Presented by Peter Saunders at the St James's Theatre, London, on 4th September 1956, with the following cast of characters:
- (in the order of their appearance)
| THOMAS ROYDE | Cyril Raymond |
| KAY STRANGE | Mary Law |
| MARY ALDIN | Gillian Lind |
| MATHEW TREVES | Frederick Leister |
| NEVILE STRANGE | George Baker |
| LADY TRESSILIAN | Janet Barrow |
| AUDREY STRANGE | Gwen Cherrell |
| TED LATIMER | Michael Scott |
| SUPERINTENDENT BATTLE | William Kendall |
| INSPECTOR LEACH | Max Brimmell |
| PC BENSON | Michael Nightingale |
- Directed by Murray MacDonald
- Decor by Michael Weight
Film & TV Dramas
- Towards Zero, 2007
- Agatha Christie's MARPLE Season 3
- director David Grindley
- writer Kevin Elyot
- cast Geraldine McEwan(Miss Jane Marple), Julian Sands(Thomas Royde), Zoe Tapper(Kay Strange), Paul Nicholls(Ted Latimer), Greg Wise(Neville Strange), Saffron Burrowes(Audrey Strange), Tom Baker(Frederick Treves), Eileen Atkins(Lady Tressilian), Julie Graham(Mary Aldin)
- L'Heure zéro, 2007 (FR)
- director Pascal Thomas
- writer François Caviglioli
- cast François Morel, Danielle Darrieux, Melvil Poupaud, Laura Smet, Chiara Mastroianni, Alessandra Martines, Clçément Thomas, Xavier Thiam, Hervçé Pierre, Vania Plemiannikov, Jacques Sereys, Valçériane de Villeneuve, Paul Minthe, Carmen Durand, Dominique Reymond
Link
- Official Site: Towards Zero
- Wikipedia: Towards Zero
- IMDb: Marple: Towards Zero (2007)
- IMDb: L'Heure zéro (2007)
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