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Torquay
The programme can be viewed by carrying out a diary search via www.englishriviera.co.uk/whats-on and on The Agatha Christie Festival website www.iacf-uk.org
Agatha Christie is Torquay's most well-known resident and the best selling author of all…
Festival
Paignton
Join Moonstone Theatre Company to help them solve a mystery, whilst enjoying a fabulous afternoon tea experience, held in Stage Left.
“The Body on the Beach”
Spring was definitely in the air but in the pretty Devon seaside resort of Lydmouth…
Murder Mystery
Paignton
We are working with Libraries Unlimited to present our first ever mystery writer day for children and young people. More details coming soon.
Children's
Torquay
Join us for an afternoon garden party at Wylam House, a spectacular and historic villa in the most desirable area of Torquay. The house (then called ‘Kya Lami’) was visited by a young Agatha Miller and her family when they were friends with the…
Murder Mystery
Newton Abbot
The Agatha Christie Festival, with thanks to Festival Friends Ugbrooke House and The Moorland Hotel, are very pleased to offer this special afternoon. Aboard a vintage double-decker bus, we will visit places that helped transform the young Agatha…
Food and Drink
Torquay
While best known for her detective stories and thrillers, Agatha Christie also wrote many stories of the supernatural, many of which were collected in The Last Séance. The occult and supernatural themes appear in many of her novels and stories,…
Spooky / Ghosts / Dark Tourism
Torquay
Agatha Christie travelled the world, but Devon always had her heart: in 1922 she described South Africa as 'like all beautiful places, just like Torquay!' This talk will explore her relationship - both personal and literary - with her childhood home…
Talk or Lecture
Torquay
Start the Literary Festival off in style! Dress up in 1920s clothes and join us for this free event, promenading along the Agatha Christie Trail from the brand-new sculpture, past the Agatha Christie bust and along to Princess Pier.
The walk is…
Participatory Event
The Kings Drive, Torquay
Agatha Christie is as synonymous with the Golden Age as Poirot is with Hastings, or Tommy is with Tuppence. In her Golden Age detective novels, Christie and her contemporaries created the blueprint for future detective fiction. Common tropes such as…
Talk or Lecture
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