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Agatha Christie’s favourite plot

By Simon de Bruxelles
The Times
By Simon de Bruxelles
The Times

THE country house where Agatha Christie wrote some of her most popular mysteries is to be opened to the public for the first time since her death in 1976.

Greenway House, on the banks of the Dart, was acquired by the National Trust on the death of Christie’s only daughter late last year. The announcement was made to coincide with the start of the first “Christie Week” to celebrate the works of the world’s most successful modern author.

Christie sold more than two billion books, translated into 103 languages. Only the Bible and Shakespeare’s works are said to have sold more.

Many of the mysteries, such as those featuring the Belgian detective Hercule Poirot, were written at Greenway, which makes a thinly disguised appearance in