![]() As I’ve written before, however, 1940’s Sad Cypressmarked a new direction for Christie from the classic pure puzzle plot and into richer, more character-driven territory. What followed may not have been, in form, exactly experimental. ![]() After a jolly summer of bridge tournaments (I’ve made almost twomaster points), energetic walks (lost nearly four hundred micro-ounces), New York theatre and a surprising dearth of mystery reading, I’m careening toward that horror of horrors – the first day of school! Naturally, this put me in mind of one of my favorite Agatha Christie mysteries, certainly one of her strongest non-Poirot/Marple titles: 1944’s Toward Zero.Ĭhristie’s puzzle-rich 1930’s output had reached its apotheosis with her acknowledged masterpiece, And Then There Were None, which among other things signaled her willingness to experiment even further with the form. Yes, all of them converging towards zero. all converging towards a given spot and then when the time comes– over the top! Zero hour. The story begins long before that – years before sometimes – with all the causes and events that bring certain people to a certain place at a certain time on a certain day. ![]() But, you know, they begin in the wrong place! They begin with the murder. ![]()
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