Superintendent Battle · Book 4
Towards Zero
- Published
- 1 January 1944
- Pages
- 316
- ISBN-13
- 9780573115684
- Type
- novel
About this book
Towards Zero closes Agatha Christie's four-book Superintendent Battle series, published in 1944 at 316 pages. It follows Murder Is Easy as the final entry in a series that ran from 1925.
Its place in Superintendent Battle
Towards Zero is book 4 in the Superintendent Battle series. It follows Murder Is Easy. See the full Superintendent Battle reading order.
Superintendent Battle is Agatha Christie's Scotland Yard professional: a square, wooden-faced, deliberately unremarkable detective who is repeatedly underestimated by the aristocrats and diplomats around him and repeatedly proves them wrong. Where Poirot leans on flamboyant genius and Marple on village intuition, Battle works by patience, procedure, and a poker face — Christie described him as looking like he was carved out of wood, and the joke of the character is that everyone in the room assumes the phlegmatic…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780573115684