Agatha Christie's English Riviera

Welcome to the English Riviera, the home of one of the world's best loved authors, crime fiction writer, Dame Agatha Christie.

The whodunnit author Agatha Christie was born in Torquay in 1890, she spent much of her life in Devon, in the area known as the English Riviera. She played here as a child, worked and socialised here as a young lady and gathered ideas that were to come to life in her best selling books with immortal characters such as Miss Marple and Hercule Poirot.

Today Agatha Christie is internationally famous as the most prolific mystery writer of all time with 79 crime novels and many plays to her name.

We invite you to follow in the footsteps of Agatha Christie and discover the English Riviera that she knew and loved so dearly. Many of the associated places have retained their 1920's character.

In the centre of Torquay is the Agatha Christie Mile where each location associated with Agatha Christie is marked with a unique plaque.

Let's start with the Agatha Christie Gallery within Torquay Museum, then on to the Grand Hotel where she and Archie spent their honeymoon, the Princess Pier where she rollerskated as a child, the elegant Pavilion where they enjoyed concerts, Beacon cove ladies bathing beach and the only bronze bust of Agatha Christie on view in the world, unveiled in 1990 to mark the centenary of her birth...

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