Devon’s Agatha Christie

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).