
Treves soon died of heart attack while climbing the stairway.

To kill his first victim, Nevile hung a sign of "Out of Order" on the door of the lift, faking its impaired state, and forced Mr. Treves, Nevile decided to kill the lawyer before he could identify him. It was revealed that Nevile murdered Adrian by running him over with his motorcar.Īfter the talk with Mr. Nevile later married another woman named Kay, but he remained resentful of Audrey and decided to take her down for revenge.Īfter her divorce, Audrey was supposed to be married to Adrian Royde, the brother her cousin Thomas Royde, until he died in a car accident. After their marriage, Audrey soon grew terrified of her husband and decided to divorce him. The boy was later revealed to be Nevile Strange, who later became a successful tennis player and athlete, and married a woman named Audrey. Treves remembered the case and the fact that the child had a distinctive physical feature which he does not reveal (later revealed to be Nevile's distinctive little fingers with visible differences to each other). The child was given a new name and a fresh start, despite a local man having seen the child practising assiduously with a bow and arrow. Arthur Treves, a lawyer, he was involved in the case of a mentally abnormal child who killed another child with an arrow, which was ruled an accident. He was portrayed by Greg Wise in Agatha Christie's Marple, and voiced by Hugh Bonneville in Joy Wilkinson's 2010 radio play adaptation of the book, the latter of whom also played Hector Blake in I Came By.Īccording to Mr. Nevile also appeared as a culprit in the third season of ITV's Agatha Christie's Marple, where the novel was adapted into one of its episode, with Miss Jane Marple as the protagonist instead. He is a sociopathic killer underneath a civilized man's disguise, attempting to kill whoever had wronged him. Nevile Strange (whose real name is unknown) is the main antagonist of Agatha Christie's 1944 novel, Towards Zero, which is the last novel of which featured Superintendent Battle, and the only novel with Battle as the sole main protagonist. ~ Nevile's Villainous Breakdown, revealing his unhinged true nature. Curse Audery-she shall hang-you've got to hang her-I want her to die afraid-to die-to die. How was I to know Royde knew the truth about Audery and Adrian? Audery and Adrian.


I'd thought out every detail-every detail! I can't help what went wrong. Never! Nor if it hadn't been for this interfering jackanapes, this pompous Scotch fool.
