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Talk or Lecture
Brixham
You’re invited to join us for a special after-hours event at Greenway, as part of the International Agatha Christie Festival celebrations.
Known as the Queen of Crime, Dame of English Literature and Mrs Mallowan, Agatha’s literary legacy has had a…
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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…
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…
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TORQUAY
In this entertaining illustrated talk, 'Agathologist' Dr Mark Aldridge discusses the search for a definitive portrayal of Miss Marple on screen. Drawing on new research undertaken for his book Agatha Christie's Marple: Expert on Wickedness, he will…
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…
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…
Event
Torquay
Join Raye Green, the author of Agatha Christie’s Doctors, as she investigates the many doctors, nurses and medics in Agatha Christie’s stories. There are around 184 doctors in her novels and they are variously depicted as healers, sleuths, victims,…
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Torquay
Join Brad Friedman, a theatre director and educator from the United States, and the author of the classic crime blog Ah Sweet Mystery, as he discusses Cards on the Table, one of Christie’s most ingenious novels set at an after-dinner bridge…
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…
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