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Talk or Lecture
Torquay
Dust off the pages of Agatha Christie’s Golden Age novels to uncover quips and references that have faded over the last one hundred years. Kate Gingold called on an amazing range of experts to throw light on obscure phrases from the 1920s novels for…
Talk or Lecture
The Kings Drive, Torquay
What did jewels mean to Hercule Poirot? Did Miss Marple have a favourite brooch? Agatha Christie mentions jewels throughout her novels, but do they have any special historical significance?
Meenakshi Reddy Madhavan will discuss the various mentions…
Talk or Lecture
Torquay
This year’s closing event will see two huge and entertaining writers in the murder mystery genre chat about their love of Agatha Christie and her influences on their work being interviewed by journalist and literary critic, Jake Kerridge, who has…
Murder Mystery
The Kings Drive, Torquay
The idea of the book came to the author when he stayed overnight at a hotel in Aleppo, northern Syria, in the late 1990s – and realized that Agatha Christie had been a regular guest in the hotel, and that the opening scene of Murder on the Orient…
Murder Mystery
Paignton
Amateur sleuths are invited to join us for a unique murder mystery experience aboard the very train that Poirot rode in both the ABC Murders and Dead Man’s Folly.
Following a drinks reception on the station at Paignton, the Dartmouth Steam Railway…
Participatory Event
Kingsbridge
Afternoon tea at Burgh Island? Don’t mind if I do! Thanks to Miss Lemon and English Riviera Custom Tours, we are able to offer a wonderful, full afternoon trip to this iconic location, synonymous with Agatha Christie.
With a sumptuous afternoon tea…
Literature
Torquay
To coincide with the launch of her memoir, Getting Away with Murder: My Unexpected Life on Page, Stage and Screen, we are delighted to be opening the Agatha Christie Literary Festival with the legend that is Lynda La Plante.
Lynda La Plante is a…
Murder Mystery
Torquay
Join us for a spiffing summer garden party is the heavenly walled gardens at Torre Abbey. Meet the Head Gardener, learn about Agatha Christie’s potent and poisonous plants and her time as a pharmacist in Torquay and join us for afternoon tea – if…
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