![]() ![]() *Thomas Royce – Owner of a Malaysian plantation and Audrey’s distant cousin *Audrey Strange - Neville’s reserved ex-wife *Kay Strange – Neville’s younger second wife *Neville Strange – Professional tennis star and Lady Tressilian’s ward ![]() Also included in the party are the following: In "TOWARDS ZERO", Jane Marple is invited to a house party hosted by an old school friend named Lady Camilla Tressilian. Since "Towards Zero" has always been one of my favorite Christie novels, I decided to give the movie a chance. Jane Marple replaced him as the story’s main detective, with the police represented by Alan Davies as one Superintendant Mallard. However, Battle did not appear in the 2007 adaptation. Instead, the main investigator in "Towards Zero" turned out to be Superintendant Battle, who had been featured in a few other Christie novels, including one Hercule Poirot tale - "Cards on the Table". First of all, the novel is not a Jane Marple mystery. The adaptation of Christie’s novel has drawn a good deal of criticism from purists. ![]() And this movie is the 2007 adaptation of Christie’s 1944 novel called "Towards Zero". However, my curiosity got the best of me and I decided to watch a movie that starred Geraldine McEwan as Miss Jane Marple. ![]() When it comes to the television adaptations of Agatha Christie’s Jane Marple novels, I tend to stick with those that featured the late Joan Hickson as the elderly sleuth. ![]()
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