This year’s Agatha Christie Festival, set to take place at a host of cultural venues across the English Riviera from 7th through 15th September, has been awarded official patronage from the United Kingdom National Commission for UNESCO.

We have been working really hard behind the scenes to ensure that we get our 2024 programme of events out earlier than ever before and with this in mind, we are delighted to announce the main events in our Fringe Festival, which will be running from Saturday 7 - Wednesday 11 September.

The 2023 Agatha Christie One-Mile Sea Swim between Beacon Cove and Meadfoot Beach saw an incredible 225 swimmers taking part.

Agatha Christie Festival is delighted to announce the winners of this year’s Young People’s Mystery Story Writing Competition.

Crime writer Ruby Gupta, based in Dehradun, India, accepted the Festival’s invitation to take up an International Writer’s Residency during last year’s Festival which ran 10-17 September 2022. She joined UK-based crime writer Vaseem Khan on stage at the Festival for a lively conversation, attended most if not all the week’s talks, film and theatrical performances and helped judge our Young Writers Competition of that year.