Agatha Christie has become synonymous throughout the world with England. Her quintessential “English” characters offer a charming view of a bygone era when people sat down to tea in the afternoon, tended roses in their gardens and where village life provided all the scandal one could ever want to hear!
The richness of the settings in Christie’s novels add to the great enjoyment when reading her novels and she drew on real places when writing her stories. Many are set in Devon where she grew up; Burgh Island, just off the coast is said to be the setting for And Then There Were None and Evil Under the Sun. Her beloved Greenway was to provide the basis for Dead Man’s Folly, Ordeal by Innocence and Five Little Pigs.
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