The International Agatha Christie Festival: Celebrating the queen of crime

Very few of us are what we seem. “Agatha Christie’s work includes 66 detective novels and 14 short story collections, featuring Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple.” The first Agatha Christie festival was held in Devon in 1990 to celebrate the author’s work, life, and legacy. The audience at the International Agatha Christie Festival 2022 The idea, according to IACF, is to “celebrate Christie in the place of her birth on the English Riviera, and explore the area’s literary and geological heritage”. Newbury, a lifelong Agatha Christie fan and author of Agatha Christie’s Devon, a guidebook to exploring the locations from her life and work, says many places around Torbay are connected with Christie and that this is the best part of the world to host a festival that promises “something for everyone”. “I’ll also be speaking at Greenway, Agatha Christie’s Devon home, on 15 September, her birthday, and then giving a talk about the Miss Marple films the following evening,” he says.