GREENWAY DEVON

The holiday home of Agatha Christie, this imposing Georgian manor overlooking the River Dart was purchased by the Queen of Crime in 1938, following her second marriage to archaeologist Max Mallowan. She furnished the house with treasures from their travels and from her childhood home in Torquay.

Agatha guarded her privacy fiercely, rarely granting interviews, and Greenway was her retreat from fame.

But family and friends would descend on the house in summer, and gather in the drawing room to hear readings from her latest manuscripts.

A house remarkably similar to Greenway features in Christie’s 1956 novel Dead Man’s Folly. Its garden, boathouse and local area are so accurately described that ITV chose Greenway as the location for their adaptation of the book, starring David Suchet as Hercule Poirot, in 2013.