Towards Zero

Lady Tresselian invites several guests to stay at her seaside house at Gull s Point. Against her better judgment she has allowed her late husband s ward, handsome tennis ace Neville Strange, and his wife Kay to come at the same time as Neville s ex-wife, Audrey.

Other guests include Mary, Lady Tresselian s companion; Ted, Kay s ever-present friend; Thomas, a family friend who has just returned from spending the war in Africa; and Lady Tresselian s old friend Lord Justice Treves.

When death visits Gull s Point, the house party is thrown into turmoil. It is left to Scotland Yard s Detective Inspector Leach and Mr. MacWhirter, an ex-detective who is also a house guest, to solve the case."