Towards Zero - Agatha Christie 1944 - Published for The Crime Club by Collins, London - First English Edition What is the connection between a failed suicide attempt, a wrongful accusation of theft against a schoolgirl, and the romantic life of a tennis player?  To the casual observer, apparently nothing. But when a house party gathers at Gull's Point, the seaside home of an elderly widow, earlier events come to a dramatic head.

Superintendent Battle investigates...
  First published in the New York by Dodd, Mead and Company in June 1944 and in London by the Collins Crime Club in July of the same year.

References: Wagstaff & Poole. Cooper & Pike,
Detective Fiction, 82. Agatha Christie, web. Agatha Christy Fandom, web.

Octavo (book size 19.1x13cm), pp. 192. In publisher’s orange cloth, spine lettered in black. Dust jacket priced ‘7s. 6d. net’ to lower corner of front flap, rear flap with ‘
Britain Calls the World’ message, as published. Rather poorly placed endpapers, it was 1944 after all.
  Condition: Near fine, slightly poorly placed endpapers due to rather limited quality control, it was 1944, cocked, in very good gently toned dust jacket, slightly heavier to spine, short closed tears to top edge of front panel, some rubbing to corners and spine ends.   Ref: 110188   Price: HK$ 4,000