Wednesday 13 March 2024

Towards Zero [#books #reviews]

by Agatha Christie

Superintendent Battle
← Cards on the Table


When you read the account of a murder―or say, a fiction story based on murder, you usually begin with the murder itself. That's all wrong. The murder begins a long time beforehand. A murder is the culmination of a lot of different circumstances, all converging at a given moment at a given point. People are brought into it from different parts of the globe and for unforeseen reasons. [...] The murder itself is the end of the story.
It's Zero Hour.
[...]
It's Zero Hour now.
Superintendent Battle
(Page 223)

A very interesting novel in which the author approaches the crime from a different angle. The final solution satisfied me, the plot interested me a lot, in short I read this book with great pleasure!

Quotes

The group round the fireplace was nearly all composed of lawyers or those who had an interest in the law.
[incipit]


'Ah hum. Nice peaceful place, Saltcreek. Nobody to hustle you.'
'I know,' said Drake. 'The kind of place where nothing ever happens.'
(Page 45)


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