The Agatha Christie International Festival (www.agatha christiefestival.com), held annually in Devon, England, will celebrate the 125th anniversary of Christie’s birth in 2015. The festival will take place Sept. 11-19 at Torre Abbey in Torquay, the town where Christie was born (on Sept. 15, 1890) and raised.
A tour, “The Agatha Christie Full-Day Tour,” includes visits to Greenway (Christie’s holiday home), the Imperial Hotel and the Grand Hotel, with lunch at The Weary Ploughman Inn plus a talk by the head gardener at Torre Abbey’s Potent Plant garden.
The tour costs £280 (near $435) from Unique Devon Tours (3 Moorland Ave., Denbury, Newton Abbot, Devon, TQ12 6EU, U.K.; phone +44 01803 812556, www.uniquedevon tours.com).