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Born: 1890
Died: 1976
Dame Agatha Christie, the world’s most popular mystery and crime writer was born in Torquay. The young Agatha lived, worked and socialised in the fashionable resort during the early 1900’s. Many of the locations inspired her writing and now appear on the pages of her best selling mystery stories.
“Agatha Christie’s Riviera” is an exciting trail around the English Riviera, linking together many locations, including Torquay Museum home to the world’s only Agatha Christie Exhibition. Torre Abbey, contains the Agatha Christie Memorial Room where Agatha’s favourite Remington typewriter and original manuscripts are on view.
Hotels en route include the Imperial where Miss Marple unravelled the mystery of the “Sleeping Murder” and the Grand Hotel where Agatha honeymooned with her new husband Archie Christie in1914.
Along the coast at Paignton is the start of seven miles of railway, now operated by the Paignton and Dartmouth Steam Railway. Agatha used this route to travel to her home on the banks of the River Dart and her famous Belgian detective, Hercule Poirot, took this route in both “Dead Man’s Folly” And the “ABC Murders”.
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