This unique event celebrates Agatha Christie’s love of sea swimming, by taking participants on a one mile ‘sightseeing swim’ between two of her favourite beaches. Participants are encouraged not to race, but to enjoy the scenery, whilst raising money for Rowcroft Hospice and the Agatha Christie Festival Charity.

Join this award-winning walking tour, which has enthralled thousands of guests from across the world, receiving 5 stars from every review!

We are working with Libraries Unlimited to present our first ever mystery writer day for children and young people. More details coming soon.

Enjoy a themed afternoon tea served in the sun lounge where Agatha Christie wrote one of her novels.

Join Moonstone Theatre Company to help them solve a mystery, whilst enjoying a fabulous afternoon tea experience, held in Stage Left.

The Agatha Christie Festival are delighted to be working alongside the team at Ugbrooke House to bring you this unique and rather spectacular murder mystery evening.

Step into the glamorous world of Agatha Christie for an evening of mystery, elegance, and intrigue at Mercure Paignton. As part of Agatha Christie Festival Week, this immersive themed dining experience will transport you back to the era of Poirot and Miss Marple, with live entertainment, engaging activities, and a few unexpected surprises.

Join us at Paignton Library after hours, as part of the International Agatha Christie Festival.

Join us for this very special service celebrating the life of Agatha Christie, in the church where she was baptised and her family worshipped. Led by Father Peter March, this promises to be a very special event in a significant setting which Agatha describes fondly in her autobiography.

Join us for an afternoon garden party at Wylam House, a spectacular and historic villa in the most desirable area of Torquay. The house (then called ‘Kya Lami’) was visited by a young Agatha Miller and her family when they were friends with the Struben family who lived here from 1890–1917. In recent years, the house and grounds have been lovingly restored to their former splendour by owners, George and Caroline Berg, who are kindly opening up their gardens for this very special event.

Tim Benzie, award-winning playwright and the acclaimed creator and host of Solve-Along-A-Murder-She-Wrote presents his new one-man show, a funny and engrossing deep dive into the enduring appeal of murder mysteries.

Last year we responded to your feedback and provided a minibus to Agatha Christie’s former holiday home at Greenway. This proved so popular with our new and returning guests alike that we are offering it again this year. But do book early, as seats sold out very quickly last year.

What better way to celebrate the birthday of Agatha Christie than at this stunning and unique location where Agatha not only stayed but was inspired to write Evil Under the Sun and And Then There Were None.

From childhood to crime writer, Greenway House and its collection portrays the incredible life of the bestselling novelist of all time. This is her story.

Find yourself immersed in a world of zoological drama as an evening of conspiracy unfolds around you, courtesy of Moonstone Theatre Company.

Following the huge success of Cave Cinema last year, our friends at Kents Cavern are back with three nights of underground films, including both Agatha Christie all-star classics and some cult films in the comedy murder mystery genre. And you will be watching them in the very caves that inspired Hampsley and The Man in the Brown Suit.

Last year we responded to your feedback and provided a minibus to Agatha Christie’s former holiday home at Greenway. This proved so popular with our new and returning guests alike that we are offering it again this year. But do book early, as seats sold out very quickly last year.

We are thrilled that, in partnership with Festival Friend the Dartmouth Steam Railway and Riverboat Company, we can offer this exciting and fun day out to the beautiful historic town of Dartmouth.

What better way to celebrate the birthday of Agatha Christie than at this stunning and unique location where Agatha not only stayed but was inspired to write Evil Under the Sun and And Then There Were None.

From childhood to crime writer, Greenway House and its collection portrays the incredible life of the bestselling novelist of all time. This is her story.

Following the huge success of Cave Cinema last year, our friends at Kents Cavern are back with three nights of underground films, including both Agatha Christie all-star classics and some cult films in the comedy murder mystery genre. And you will be watching them in the very caves that inspired Hampsley and The Man in the Brown Suit.

The Improvised Murder Mystery - a classic murder mystery created on the spot in this ingenious and hilarious show by Degrees of Error.

Hay Fever is Noël Coward’s iconic, hilarious and subversive comedy.

Last year we responded to your feedback and provided a minibus to Agatha Christie’s former holiday home at Greenway. This proved so popular with our new and returning guests alike that we are offering it again this year. But do book early, as seats sold out very quickly last year.

While staying at her holiday home at Greenway, Agatha Christie worshipped at the ancient church of St Mary the Virgin, Churston Ferrers. In her autobiography, she noted ‘It is a beautiful little church and the plain glass east window always gaped at me like a gap in teeth. I looked at it every Sunday and used to think how lovely it would look in pale colours’.

The Agatha Christie Festival, with thanks to Festival Friends Ugbrooke House and The Moorland Hotel, are very pleased to offer this special afternoon. Aboard a vintage double-decker bus, we will visit places that helped transform the young Agatha into the bestselling novelist she became.

Following the huge success of Cave Cinema last year, our friends at Kents Cavern are back with three nights of underground films, including both Agatha Christie all-star classics and some cult films in the comedy murder mystery genre. And you will be watching them in the very caves that inspired Hampsley and The Man in the Brown Suit.

Ahead of the start of the Literary Festival, we are hosting an informal mix and mingle event to allow guests to meet each other over a drink or two. We will be providing details of the (rather nice) location a bit closer to the event.

Local theatre group Project X will perform Agatha Christie's Murder in the Studio, with the audience invited to take a trip back in time to the 1950s and the golden age of radio. The actors will recreate the live recordings of three Agatha Christie Radio Plays, with sound effects created on stage for the audience’s enjoyment.

Local theatre group Project X will perform Agatha Christie's Murder in the Studio, with the audience invited to take a trip back in time to the 1950s and the golden age of radio. The actors will recreate the live recordings of three Agatha Christie Radio Plays, with sound effects created on stage for the audience’s enjoyment.

Local theatre group Project X will perform Agatha Christie's Murder in the Studio, with the audience invited to take a trip back in time to the 1950s and the golden age of radio. The actors will recreate the live recordings of three Agatha Christie Radio Plays, with sound effects created on stage for the audience’s enjoyment.