Festival 2022

Browse the full programme for this year's Festival 10-17 September. Our online box office via Ticketsource will open on 27 May.


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Christie & Moor Private Tour

Saturday 10th September 2022, 8:30am | Pick up and drop off at your accommodation which is included within a 10 mile radius of Torquay. Travel surcharge at £1.25 per mile, agreed and charged separately.

Christie & Moor Private Tour

Dates available throughout festival.

Experience some of the places and environments that helped Agatha Christie write some of her most famous (and not so famous) novels including “The Mysterious Affair at Styles”, “The Sittaford Mystery”, “And Then there were none” and “Dead Mans folly” to name but a few.

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Dressed to Kill: Agatha Christie and Costume Design

Saturday 10th September 2022, 9:00am | Torre Abbey Museum, Torquay TQ2 5JE

Dressed to Kill

10 September - 20 November 2022 | Agatha Christie and Costume Design

An exhibition of costumes worn by Maggie Smith, Bette Davis, Angela Lansbury, Emily Blunt and Judi Dench from Agatha Christie film adaptations including Evil Under the Sun (1982), Death on the Nile (2004) and Murder on the Orient Express (2017). 

Tickets: Ticket Price: Included in the Entrance Fee to Torre Abbey Museum

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Agatha Christie Walking Tours

Saturday 10th September 2022, 10:00am | The English Riveria Visitor Information Office, Vaughan Parade, Torquay, TQ2 5JG

Agatha Christie Walking Tours

Walks available until 17 September

Both our walks meet outside The English Riviera Visitor Information Office on Vaughan Parade,
Torquay TQ2 5JG.

Our walking tours take guests around Torquay’s beautiful sea front, passing the places that played a significant part in Agatha’s life, such as The Pavilion, Princess Pier and Torre Abbey.

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The Agatha Christie Sea Swim – Community Event

Saturday 10th September 2022, 12:00pm | Broadsands to Goodrington Sands, Paignton

The Agatha Christie Sea Swim – Community Event

SOLD OUT

This unique event celebrating Agatha Christie’s love of sea swimming returns, taking participants on a one mile ‘sightseeing swim’ between two of the Bays most popular beaches.

Tickets: £25 (proceeds to Rowcroft Hospice)

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The Return of Miss Marple

Saturday 10th September 2022, 3:00pm | Spanish Barn, Torre Abbey, Torquay, TQ2 5JE

The Return of Miss Marple

Authors Elly Griffiths, Dreda Say Mitchell MBE, Kate Mosse OBE in conversation with David Brawn

45 years after Agatha Christie’s last Miss Marple novel, Sleeping Murder, was published in 1976, a new collection, Marple: Twelve New Stories, is published by HarperCollins, penned by 12 contemporary Christie devotees.

Tickets: £10 / £8

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Agatha Christie: A Very Elusive Woman: Lucy Worsley

Saturday 10th September 2022, 7:00pm | Spanish Barn, Torre Abbey, Torquay TQ2 5JE

Agatha Christie: A Very Elusive Woman: Lucy Worsley

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Why did Agatha Christie spend her career pretending that she was 'just' an ordinary housewife, when clearly she wasn't? With access to personal letters and papers that have rarely been seen, Lucy Worsley talks about how she researched and wrote her authoritative new biography which is published this September.

Tickets: £10.00 / £8.00

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‘If you like Agatha Christie, then you’ll like….’ with Professor Frankie Bailey

Sunday 11th September 2022, 11:00am | Spanish Barn, Torre Abbey, Torquay TQ2 5JE

‘If you like Agatha Christie, then you’ll like….’ with Professor Frankie Bailey

Professor Frankie Bailey explores the work of a host of new female writers of colour in the genre and encourages us to expand our reading horizons.

Tickets: £10.00 / £8.00

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Alias Mary Westmacott with Shreemayee Das (India)

Sunday 11th September 2022, 12:30pm | Spanish Barn, Torre Abbey, Torquay TQ2 5JE

Alias Mary Westmacott with Shreemayee Das (India)

Author and journalist Shreemayee Das explores the romance novels of Agatha Christie which Christie wrote under the name of Mary Westmacott.

Tickets: FREE OF CHARGE, booking essential

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Shedunnit: LIVE! With Caroline Crampton

Sunday 11th September 2022, 3:00pm | Spanish Barn, Torre Abbey, Torquay TQ2 5JE

Shedunnit: LIVE! With Caroline Crampton

Caroline writes, hosts and produces the Shedunnit podcast, unravelling the mysteries behind classic detective stories such as those of Agatha Christie, Dorothy L Sayers, Ngaio Marsh and Josephine Tey. Join Caroline for a LIVE presentation of the podcast produced especially for the Festival.

Tickets: £10.00 / £8.00

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Princess Pier Roller Dance – Community Event

Sunday 11th September 2022, 4:00pm | Princess Pier, Seafront, Torquay TQ2 5HA

Princess Pier Roller Dance – Community Event

Event Postponed

We are rolling back the years to 1911 when Agatha Christie famously roller-skated on Torquay’s Princess Pier with her friends. We are teaming up with Revolution Skate to provide the skate hire, while a DJ will be spinning the period tunes on the old 78’s. Vintage clothes very much welcome – let the good times roll again!

Tickets: £10.00 including skate and helmet hire

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History, Mystery & Christie: Authors Robert Goddard and Kate Ellis in conversation

Sunday 11th September 2022, 5:00pm | Spanish Barn, Torre Abbey, Torquay TQ2 5JE

History, Mystery & Christie: Authors Robert Goddard and Kate Ellis in conversation

Moderated by Tony Medawar

Award-winning best-selling novelists Robert Goddard and Kate Ellis, masters of the craft of historical crime writing, talk to author and Christie expert Tony Medawar about Christie’s pioneering influence on the genre and their own work.

Tickets: £10.00 / £8.00

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Dinner at Greenway – with Dr John Curran

Sunday 11th September 2022, 7:30pm | Greenway House, Galmpton, near Brixham TQ5 0ES

Dinner at Greenway – with Dr John Curran

SOLD OUT We’re delighted to team up with the National Trust at Agatha Christie’s former holiday home at Greenway House to host an exclusive and intimate dinner for just 20 guests. Arrive for drinks and canapes followed by a guided tour of the house. A five course dinner is followed by an after-dinner talk by renowned expert on Agatha Christie, Dr John Curran. Carriages to the door of the house at 10.30 pm.

Tickets: £125.00. Limited to 20 tickets only.

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Solve-A-Long-a Murder She Wrote

Sunday 11th September 2022, 7:30pm | Princess Theatre, Torquay TQ2 5EZ

Solve-A-Long-a Murder She Wrote

See the show Time Out rated one of 2019’s 50 Great Nights Out in London that has played to sell-out audiences across the UK and Australia.

Cult hit event Solve-Along-A-Murder-She-Wrote comes to town, with an interactive screening of the classic Murder, She Wrote episode “Broadway Malady”. Jessica Fletcher heads to New York City but soon gets caught up in a murder mystery only she (or you!) can solve!

Tickets: £13.00

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‘The Essence of a Dream’: Agatha Christie’s Grand Tour with Tony Medawar

Monday 12th September 2022, 11:00am | Spanish Barn, Torre Abbey, Torquay TQ2 5JE

‘The Essence of a Dream’: Agatha Christie’s Grand Tour with Tony Medawar

This year’s Festival marks 100 years since Agatha set off on her Grand Tour. Christie expert and author Tony Medawar, former producer of the Festival, explores what she described as her ‘travel life…the essence of a dream’, the 10-month odyssey around the world she made in 1922, illustrated by pictures from The Christie Archive.

Tickets: £10.00 / £8.00

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100 Years of Tommy & Tuppence: A Collector’s Perspective with David Morris

Monday 12th September 2022, 12:30pm | Spanish Barn, Torre Abbey, Torquay TQ2 5JE

100 Years of Tommy & Tuppence: A Collector’s Perspective with David Morris

David Morris, Editor and author of the authoritative website Collecting Christie tells us about his fascination with collecting Christie first editions and memorabilia in a year which celebrates the centenary of the first Tommy & Tuppence novel.

Tickets: FREE OF CHARGE, booking essential.

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Death at the Dig

Monday 12th September 2022, 2:00pm | Paignton Library & Information Centre, Paignton TQ4 5 AG

Death at the Dig

A Murder Mystery followed by a talk by Kate Ellis, winner of the CWA Dagger in the Library Award, 2019

Put your sleuthing skills to the test and join us to play detective and figure out whodunit in this entertaining performance, presented by Paignton Library with award-winning crime author, Kate Ellis. Kate will follow the performance with a talk about her crime fiction and the golden age of crime writing.

Tickets: £5 / £3 / Children (under 16) go free

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Poirot’s London with Tina Hodgkinson

Monday 12th September 2022, 3:00pm | Spanish Barn, Torre Abbey, Torquay TQ2 5JE

Poirot’s London with Tina Hodgkinson

London is a re-occurring location throughout Christie’s work and home to her detective Hercule Poirot. This illustrated talk follows in Agatha’s footsteps to visit her former homes, and the fashionable restaurants, luxury hotels and other locations that she and her characters frequented. Tina Hodgkinson is a long-time Agatha Christie fan and qualified London tour guide.

Tickets: £10.00 / £8.00

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The Case of the Late Cook

Monday 12th September 2022, 4:00pm | Brixham Library, Brixham TQ5 8EU

The Case of the Late Cook

A Murder Mystery followed by a talk by Kate Ellis, winner of the CWA Dagger in the Library Award, 2019

Put your sleuthing skills to the test and join us to play detective and figure out whodunit in this entertaining performance, presented by Brixham Library with award-winning crime author, Kate Ellis. Kate will follow the performance with a talk about her crime fiction and the golden age of crime writing.

Tickets: £5.00 / £3.00 / Children (under 16) go free

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Agatha Christie and the Ghosts of Devon: tales shared by David Phillips

Monday 12th September 2022, 7:00pm | St Nicholas Priory, Exeter EX4 3BL

Agatha Christie and the Ghosts of Devon: tales shared by David Phillips

David has studied the ghost stories of Torbay for nearly 30 years now and is certain that Agatha Christie would have been aware of most of them during her lifetime.

Tickets: £10.00 / £8.00

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What’s Your Poison? Talk and cocktail masterclass with Caroline Hostein and Jo Barlow

Monday 12th September 2022, 7:00pm | Hampton Hilton Hotel, Torquay TQ1 1DP

What’s Your Poison?

Talk and cocktail masterclass with Caroline Hostein and Cosmo Boardman

Caroline Hostein introduces us to cocktails in Christie and the stories behind the creation of our favourites, whilst award-winning cocktail mixologist, Cosmo Boardman, demonstrates the craft: learn how to make your own in this delicious Festival Fringe talk and demonstration.

Tickets: £25

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And Then There Were None

Monday 12th September 2022, 7:30pm | The Little Theatre, St Mark’s Road, Meadfoot, Torquay TQ1 2EL

Agatha Christie: And Then There Were None

Monday 12 September to Saturday 17 September

TOADS Theatre Company presents Agatha Christie’s ‘And Then There Were None’, directed by Alec Stokes at The Little Theatre, Torquay.

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Poirot – prophet for a secular age? with Dr. Hannah Strømmen

Tuesday 13th September 2022, 11:00am | Spanish Barn, Torre Abbey, Torquay TQ2 5JE

Poirot – prophet for a secular age? with Dr. Hannah Strømmen

Senior Lecturer in biblical studies at the University of Chichester, Hannah explores the references and allusions to faith in Christie’s Poirot mysteries and reflects on the author’s stance on morality and ethics in a secular age.

Tickets: £10.00 / £8.00

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Agatha the Traveller, with Tom Marchant, Black Tomato

Tuesday 13th September 2022, 12:30pm | Spanish Barn, Torre Abbey, Torquay TQ2 5JE

Agatha the Traveller, with Tom Marchant, Black Tomato

To mark the centenary of Agatha Christie’s Grand Tour, Black Tomato has been appointed by the Christie Estate as the official travel partner to bring the monumental trip to life. Here Tom Marchant gives us a taster of a trip of a lifetime, seeing the world though Agatha’s eyes and footsteps.

Tickets: FREE but booking essential

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Crime of Passion: Investigating Love and Agatha Christie with Dr Charlotte Beyer

Tuesday 13th September 2022, 3:00pm | Spanish Barn, Torre Abbey, Torquay TQ2 5JE

Crime of Passion: Investigating Love and Agatha Christie with Dr Charlotte Beyer

Dr Charlotte Beyer is Senior Lecturer in English Studies at the University of Gloucestershire, UK. She is the author of two single-author scholarly monographs to date, Murder in a Few Words: Gender, Genre and Location in the Crime Short Story (McFarland, 2020), and Contemporary Children's and Young Adult Literature: Writing Back to History and Oppression (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2021). She has published six edited books, including Teaching Crime Fiction (Palgrave 2018). Charlotte has published widely on crime fiction and contemporary literature and is currently writing a book on Agatha Christie.

Tickets: £10.00 / £8.00 / Students £5

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Bloody Bombay: how Agatha Christie inspired modern Indian crime fiction with Vaseem Khan and Ruby Gupta

Tuesday 13th September 2022, 5:00pm | Spanish Barn, Torre Abbey, Torquay TQ2 5JE

Bloody Bombay

How Agatha Christie inspired modern Indian crime fiction with Vaseem Khan and Ruby Gupta

Best-selling authors Vaseem Khan and the Festival’s International Writer-in-Residence, Dr Ruby Gupta, examine the spectacular rise of crime fiction set in, and about, India.

Tickets: £10.00 / £8.00

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The A B Sea Murders: A River Boat Tour

Tuesday 13th September 2022, 6:30pm | Beacon Quay, Haldon Pier, Torquay

The A B Sea Murders

SOLD OUT

Join us for a boat trip around the Bay, passing beaches loved by Agatha or featured in her works. Local author Matt Newbury will be providing a commentary, while there will be period music and a full bar on board.

Extra date added on Tuesday 13th September​​​

Tickets: £20

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Agatha Christie – from Stage to Screen with Dr Mark Aldridge

Tuesday 13th September 2022, 7:00pm | Spanish Barn, Torre Abbey, Torquay TQ2 5JE

Agatha Christie – from Stage to Screen with Dr Mark Aldridge

Mark Aldridge is Associate Professor of Screen Histories at Solent University.  His publications include the books Agatha Christie’s Poirot: the Greatest Detective in the World (2020), Agatha Christie on Screen (2016) and The Birth of British Television (2011).

Tickets: £10.00 / £8.00

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100 Years of the Mysterious Affair at Styles with Dr John Curran

Wednesday 14th September 2022, 11:00am | Seminar A/B, Old Library, University of Exeter, Exeter EX4 4SB

100 Years of the Mysterious Affair at Styles with Dr John Curran

SOLD OUT An opportunity to view primary sources from the University of Exeter's Special Collections' archive of correspondence and papers from the office of Agatha Christie's literary agent, Hughes Massie & Co Ltd. and hear internationally recognised expert on Christie's work, Dr John Curran, speak about how Agatha Christie came to write her very first crime novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles and how it influenced her writing career.

Tickets: £10.00 / £8.00

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Agatha, Bernard & Crime: The ABC Murders with Carla Valentine

Wednesday 14th September 2022, 11:00am | Spanish Barn, Torre Abbey, Torquay TQ2 5JE

Agatha, Bernard & Crime: The ABC of Murder with Carla Valentine

Carla Valentine is a qualified mortician, curator of Barts Pathology Museum and author of Past Mortems and Murder Isn’t Easy.

Tickets: £10.00 / £8.00

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God and the Little Grey Cells with Dr Dan Clanton (USA)

Wednesday 14th September 2022, 12:30pm | Spanish Barn, Torre Abbey, Torquay TQ2 5JE

God and the Little Grey Cells with Dr Dan Clanton (USA)

Dan Clanton is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Doane University, Nebraska, USA.

Tickets: FREE but booking essential

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Weapon of Choice: Agatha Christie and Poisons with Dr Kathryn Harkup

Wednesday 14th September 2022, 3:00pm | The Library, Devon & Exeter Institution, Exeter EX1 1EZ

Weapon of Choice: Agatha Christie and Poisons

with Dr Kathryn Harkup

Kathryn is a chemist and author. She completed a doctorate on her favourite chemicals, phosphines. Her first book was the international best-seller A is for Arsenic: The Poisons of Agatha Christie which was shortlisted for a Mystery Readers International Macavity Award and a BMA Book Award. Join her for fascinating insights into Christie’s ‘weapon of choice’ through a chemist’s eyeview.

Tickets: £10.00 / £8.00

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Agatha Christie and the Ghosts of Devon: performance by David Phillips

Wednesday 14th September 2022, 7:00pm | The Undercroft, Torre Abbey, Torquay TQ2 5JE

Agatha Christie and the Ghosts of Devon: performance by David Phillips

David has studied the ghost stories of Torbay for nearly 30 years now and is certain that Agatha Christie would have been aware of most of them during her lifetime.

Tickets: £10.00 / £8.00

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All About Agatha Live! Agatha Christie’s Greatest Novel?

Wednesday 14th September 2022, 7:00pm | Spanish Barn, Torre Abbey, Torquay TQ2 5JE

All About Agatha Live! Agatha Christie’s Greatest Novel?

A panel discussion chaired by Kemper Donovan with Dr John Curran, Dr Jamie Bernthal-Hooker, Carla Valentine and Dr Mark Aldridge

A unique opportunity to hear from four Christie experts whose combined knowledge of the Christie oeuvre is unparalleled. In this panel debate they will challenge each other with their own pitches for Agatha’s greatest novel.

Tickets: £10.00 / £8.00

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Mystery in Mansions: Christie and the English Country House with Jeremy Musson

Thursday 15th September 2022, 11:00am | Spanish Barn, Torre Abbey, Torquay TQ2 5JE

Mystery in Mansions: Christie and the English Country House with Jeremy Musson

Jeremy Musson is an architectural historian, author and journalist. His books include How to Read a Country House and English Country House Interiors. Here he casts an architectural historian’s eye on the Country House as it features in so many of Christie’s novels and shares new insights into her work.

Tickets: £10.00 / £8.00

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Agatha in Africa with Michael, Stanley and Bryony

Thursday 15th September 2022, 12:30pm | Spanish Barn, Torre Abbey, Torquay TQ2 5JE

Agatha in Africa with Michael, Stanley and Bryony

Michael Stanley is the writing team of South Africans Michael Sears and Stanley Trollip. Their new novel A Deadly Covenant is available in North America and will be published in the UK by Orenda Books in December. In this entertaining broadcast they focus on Agatha Christie's less well-known knowledge of Sub-Saharan Africa. They will be joined by author Bryony Rheam who won the 'Write Your Own Christie' competition in 2014. She lives in Zimbabwe and has made a study of Agatha Christie's visit to Rhodesia. Her latest mystery novel is titled All Come to Dust.

Tickets: FREE but booking essential

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The Importance of Being Poirot with Professor Jeremy Black

Thursday 15th September 2022, 3:00pm | Spanish Barn, Torre Abbey, Torquay TQ2 5JE

The Importance of Being Poirot

with Professor Jeremy Black

Historian Professor Jeremy Black explains how Agatha Christie’s detective character Hercule Poirot is inseparable from the turbulent age in which the author lived. Black finds significant social commentary in Christie’s novels.

Tickets: £10.00 / £8.00

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Agatha Christie and The Man in the Brown Suit with Dr Jamie Bernthal-Hooker

Thursday 15th September 2022, 7:00pm | Kents Cavern, Torquay TQ1 2JF

Agatha Christie and The Man in the Brown Suit

with Dr Jamie Bernthal-Hooker. Plus guided tour of Kents Cavern by James Hull and a glass of prosecco or orange juice.

Christie expert Jamie Bernthal-Hooker’s talk takes places inside the atmospheric prehistoric caves that form Kents Cavern in Torquay. Partly inspired by her Grand Tour, The Man in the Brown Suit was written in Agatha Christie’s flat in London in 1924 with Agatha Christie evoking exotic African landscapes from memory. Kents Cavern plays a role in the novel as Hampsley Cavern.

Tickets: £25.00

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Festival Lit-Hop

Thursday 15th September 2022, 7:00pm | Meet at Paignton Picture House, Torbay Road, Paignton.

Festival Lit-Hop

This year we are hosting our literary take on a bar crawl, visiting some quirky and unusual venues around Paignton Harbour, with readings, poetry, music and unexpected happenings along the way.

Tickets: FREE but booking essential

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Charles Court Opera presents Express G&S

Thursday 15th September 2022, 7:30pm | Palace Theatre, Paignton

Charles Court Opera presents Express G&S

All aboard for a murderous musical mystery tour as the ‘Masters of Gilbert & Sullivan in small spaces’, the Charles Court Opera company. present Express G&S, a new spoof of the classic railway mystery.

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Dinner at Greenway

Thursday 15th September 2022, 7:30pm | Greenway House, Galmpton, near Brixham TQ5 0ES

Dinner at Greenway

– with Dr Mark Aldridge

SOLD OUT We’re delighted to team up with the National Trust at Agatha Christie’s former holiday home at Greenway House to host an exclusive and intimate dinner for just 20 guests.

Tickets: £125.00. Limited to 20 tickets only.

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Making The Agatha Christie Statue:  Elizabeth Hadley, sculptor of the new Torquay artwork

Friday 16th September 2022, 11:00am | Cockington Court, Cockington, Torquay

Making The Agatha Christie Statue

Elizabeth Hadley, sculptor of the new Torquay artwork

Brixham-based sculptor Elizabeth Hadley is commissioned to create a new artwork in tribute to Agatha Christie in her birthplace, Torquay. Meet the sculptor and hear about her work in progress at this special event. The artwork itself is expected to be completed in 2023.

Tickets: £10.00/£8.00

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The Christian World of Agatha Christie, Nick Baldock (USA)

Friday 16th September 2022, 12:30pm | Spanish Barn, Torre Abbey, Torquay TQ2 5JE

The Christian World of Agatha Christie, Nick Baldock (USA)

The ‘whodunnit’ is by definition concerned with innocence and guilt, right and wrong. The works of Agatha Christie subtly, but with increasing insistence, engage with the Christian philosophy behind the form.

Tickets: FREE but booking essential

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100 Years of the Mysterious Affair at Styles with Dr John Curran

Friday 16th September 2022, 3:00pm | Spanish Barn, Torre Abbey, Torquay TQ2 5JE

100 Years of the Mysterious Affair at Styles

with Dr John Curran

Internationally recognised expert on Christie’s work, Dr John Curran, will speak about how Agatha Christie came to write her very first crime novel The Mysterious Affair at Styles and how it influenced her writing career.

Tickets: £10.00 / £8.00

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The A B Sea Murders: A River Boat Tour

Friday 16th September 2022, 6:30pm | Beacon Quay, Haldon Pier, Torquay

The A B Sea Murders

Extra date added on Tuesday 13th September​​​

Join us for a boat trip around the Bay, passing beaches loved by Agatha or featured in her works. Local author Matt Newbury will be providing a commentary, while there will be period music and a full bar on board.

Extra date added on Tuesday 13th September​​​

Tickets: £20

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New Writers on the Riviera

Friday 16th September 2022, 7:00pm | Spanish Barn, Torre Abbey

New Writers on the Riviera

Sarah Pearse and Adam Nevill In Conversation

Meet two brilliant local novelists who are advancing the nail-biting thriller writing tradition of the Bay: Sarah Pearse is the author of The Sanatorium, an instant New York Times & #1 Sunday Times bestseller. Her new book The Retreat is out now. Adam Nevill is the author of The Ritual, Last Days, No One Gets Out and The Reddening - all won The August Derleth Award for Best Horror Novel. Both authors have film adaptations under way.

Tickets: £7.00 / £5.00

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Locked Room Mystery

Saturday 17th September 2022, 10:00am | Escape HQ Torquay, Escape HQ Dartmouth

Be part of a Locked Room Mystery

Visit Escape HQ in Torquay or Dartmouth

Bring your team along to use your combined detecting skills in a sixty minute puzzle room challenge. Choose from a ‘Sherlock’-themed room in Torquay or an ‘Espionage’ themed room in Dartmouth. Can you crack the case before the timer?

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Agatha Christie and Espionage with Dr Julius Green

Saturday 17th September 2022, 11:00am | Spanish Barn, Torre Abbey, Torquay TQ2 5JE

Agatha Christie and Espionage

with Dr Julius Green

Julius is an Olivier award-winning theatre producer and a Fellow of the Birkbeck Centre for Contemporary Theatre, University of London. The leading authority on Agatha Christie's work as a dramatist, he produced the 2001 Agatha Christie Theatre Festival (a 12-week season of Christie's complete stage works as then known), and in 2006 founded the Agatha Christie Theatre Company for Bill Kenwright Ltd. In 2012 he was invited to write the introduction to HarperCollins' 60th anniversary edition of The Mousetrap and Other Plays, and in 2015 HarperCollins published his book Agatha Christie; A Life in Theatre.

Tickets: £10.00 / £8.00

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Framed!

Saturday 17th September 2022, 2:00pm | Palace Theatre Paignton

Framed! 

Presented by PaddleBoat Theatre Company and the International Agatha Christie Festival

PaddleBoat Theatre Company presents a thrilling family whodunnit with their distinctive fingerprints all over it! Expect music, puppetry, clowning and more. Come and help us catch the clues and spot the suspects before Rufus goes down for a crime he didn't commit! 

Tickets: £8.00 / £4.00 (under 16s)

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The Torquay Coin Caper

Saturday 17th September 2022, 3:00pm | Abbey Park Pitch n Putt Golf Course

The Torquay Coin Caper

Torre Abbey Museum had a rare coin collection on exhibit - had being the key word. A crafty criminal has absconded with the collection, leaving only some cryptic clues on the course of the nearby Pitch N’ Putt.

Tickets: £8.00

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Agatha Christie in the Middle East – a Documentary:  Film directed by Sabine Scharnagl

Saturday 17th September 2022, 7:00pm | Torquay Museum, Torquay

Agatha Christie in the Middle East – a Documentary: Film directed by Sabine Scharnagl

Torquay Museum hosts a fascinating documentary by Germany-based film-maker Sabine Scharnagl. The film tells the little-known story of Christie’s life in the Middle East with her second husband, the archaeologist Max Mallowan and includes rare film footage Agatha herself shot whilst joining Max on his excavations in Syria and Iraq, contrasting these images with the reality of the former excavation sites today.

Tickets: FREE OF CHARGE - booking essential

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