Christie conceived of two unlikely characters for her crime novels. Her works often ended with suspects summoned to a drawing room of an upper class home, where the detective revealed the identity of the killer. Over the course of the book or play, a detective gradually uncovers the secrets of the suspects in a plot filled with shocking and surprising developments. A murder is committed, and there are multiple suspects. She developed what is now considered a classic mystery structure. Christie's reputation as 'The Queen of Crime' was built upon the large number of classic motifs that she either introduced or made popular in her 66 detective novels. She is the best-selling novelist of all time, and only the Bible and William Shakespeare’s plays and poems exceed sales totals for her books, short stories, and plays.

To download the production postcard for Towards Zero to share with your friends, visit the Downloads page of our website and look under the Production Postcard heading.Īgatha Christie's place atop the pantheon of English language mystery writers is made clear by the fact that more than one billion copies of her novels have been sold in the original English and an additional billion in translation. In this nail-biting thriller with Superintendent Battle, the play probes the psychology of jealousy in the shadow of a murder. When a house party gathers at Gull's Point, the seaside home of Lady Tressilian, Neville Strange finds himself caught between his old wife Audrey and his new flame Kay.

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