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Agatha Christie and the Murder Game - John Curran

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The Spanish Barn, Torre Abbey, The Kings Drive, Torquay, Devon, TQ2 5JE

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Secrets and Spies: Agatha Christie the War Writer, part of the Agatha Christies Festival - Torre Abbey, Torquay, Devon
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Agatha Christie and the Murder Game 19 Sept 2025

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THIS EVENT IS PART OF THE AGATHA CHRISTIE FESTIVAL

John Curran looks at Golden Age detective fiction as a literary game and explains how Agatha Christie was the greatest player. Ever.

Internationally recognised expert on Christie’s work, Dr John Curran, is a literary scholar and archivist who worked as a National Trust consultant during the restoration of the Greenway estate and also researched the author’s personal archives and notebooks. This award-winning work was published under the title of Agatha Christie’s Secret Notebooks: Fifty Years of Mysteries in the Making and its follow up, Agatha Christie: Murder in the Making: More Stories and Secrets from Her Notebooks. His latest book The Murder Game: Play, Puzzles and Detective Fiction will be published...Read More

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THIS EVENT IS PART OF THE AGATHA CHRISTIE FESTIVAL

John Curran looks at Golden Age detective fiction as a literary game and explains how Agatha Christie was the greatest player. Ever.

Internationally recognised expert on Christie’s work, Dr John Curran, is a literary scholar and archivist who worked as a National Trust consultant during the restoration of the Greenway estate and also researched the author’s personal archives and notebooks. This award-winning work was published under the title of Agatha Christie’s Secret Notebooks: Fifty Years of Mysteries in the Making and its follow up, Agatha Christie: Murder in the Making: More Stories and Secrets from Her Notebooks. His latest book The Murder Game: Play, Puzzles and Detective Fiction will be published in Autumn 2025.

 

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