{"id":1731,"date":"2015-09-11T08:48:00","date_gmt":"2015-09-11T08:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cityadventurers.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1731"},"modified":"2015-09-11T08:48:00","modified_gmt":"2015-09-11T08:48:00","slug":"125th-birthday-celebrations-of-the-queen-of-crime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cityadventurers.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1731","title":{"rendered":"125th Birthday Celebrations of the Queen of Crime"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Agatha Christie<\/h1>\n<p>Agatha Christie was born on September 15, 1890, in Torquay.<\/p>\n<p>She published her first novel, <em>The Mysterious Affair at Styles<\/em>, in 1920. She went on to become one of the most famous writers in history, with mysteries like <em>Murder at the Vicarage<\/em>, <em>Partners in Crime<\/em> and <em>Sad Cypress<\/em>. She sold billions of copies of her work, and was also a noted playwright and romance author.<\/p>\n<p>She died on January 12, 1976.<\/p>\n<h2>\u00a0<strong>Partners in Crime <\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Agatha Christie&#8217;s spy drama has recently been turned into a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/p02vf6rn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">BBC series<\/a>. Tommy and Tuppence Beresford are amateur sleuths who foil plots in 1950s Cold War Britain. Jessica Raine is wonderful as Prudence Beresford, otherwise known as Tuppence. She is a quick-witted and utterly irrepressible woman whose only downfall is that she sometimes looks before she leaps. David Walliams plays her husband,\u00a0Thomas Beresford, otherwise known as Tommy.\u00a0A clever and logical man whose endeavours nevertheless usually end up in disaster.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>The 2015 International Agatha Christie Festival<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Marking the 125th Birthday Celebrations of the Queen of Crime at Torre Abbey, Torquay 11 \u2013 20\u00a0September 2015.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.agathachristiefestival.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">International Agatha Christie Festival<\/a> is fast becoming one of the UK\u2019s leading literary festivals.<\/p>\n<p>This is now one of the UK\u2019s leading literary festivals.\u00a0This year\u2019s International Agatha Christie Festival\u00a0offers insights into Agatha Christie\u2019s personal interests, including food and poisons.\u00a0As well as talks by Christie fans and scholars there will be\u00a0book launches, theatre, music and film, and exhibitions of previously unseen materials.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1585\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1585\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cityadventurers.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/agatha-christie-bench.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1585\" src=\"https:\/\/cityadventurers.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/agatha-christie-bench.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"Agatha Christie bench by Juliamaud\" width=\"300\" height=\"206\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cityadventurers.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/agatha-christie-bench.jpg 1079w, https:\/\/cityadventurers.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/agatha-christie-bench-300x206.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cityadventurers.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/agatha-christie-bench-1024x703.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cityadventurers.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/agatha-christie-bench-768x527.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1585\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Agatha Christie bench by Juliamaud<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Agatha Christie Agatha Christie was born on September 15, 1890, in Torquay. She published her first novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, in 1920. She went on to become one of the most famous writers in history, with mysteries like Murder at the Vicarage, Partners in Crime and Sad Cypress. She sold billions of copies &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/cityadventurers.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1731\">More <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">125th Birthday Celebrations of the Queen of Crime<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1585,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[521,541,580,482],"tags":[339,941],"class_list":["post-1731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-calendar-events-misc","category-history","category-murder-mystery-books","category-murder-mystery-theatre","tag-agatha-christie","tag-international-agatha-christie-festival"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>125th Birthday Celebrations of the Queen of Crime - City Adventurers<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cityadventurers.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1731\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"125th Birthday Celebrations of the Queen of Crime - City Adventurers\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Agatha Christie Agatha Christie was born on September 15, 1890, in Torquay. 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