Seaside town celebrates Agatha Christie vintage-style


Attendess in fancy dress pose at a garden party in honour of the 125th anniversary of the birth of British female crime writer Dame Agatha Christie in Torquay on September 15, 2015. Torquay, the birthplace of Agatha Christie is hosting a festival in honour of the distinguished novelists 125th birthday. - AFP

TORQUAY, United Kingdom (AFP) - The ghostly shadow of Agatha Christie emerges in a dimly-lit garden on a mystery-filled night in Torquay, the birthplace of the queen of crime which is celebrating the 125th anniversary of her birth.

“Do you think it’s her?” a young woman asks her neighbour half-jokingly when she spots the hat-wearing silhouette crouched over her typewriter in the glamorously old-fashioned English Riviera town.

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