Agatha Christie

September 15, 1890 – January 12, 1976

[su_expand more_text=”Show More Quotes” less_text=”Show less” hide_less=”no” height=”65″ text_color=”#000000″ link_color=”#af0000″ link_style=”default” link_align=”left” more_icon=”” less_icon=”” class=””][su_quote style=”default”]I specialize in murders of quiet, domestic interest.[/su_quote]

[su_quote style=”default”]One doesn’t recognize the really important moments in one’s life until it’s too late.[/su_quote][su_quote style=”default”]Too much mercy… often resulted in further crimes which were fatal to innocent victims who need not have been victims if justice had been put first and mercy second.[/su_quote][su_quote style=”default”]Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that’s no reason not to give it.[/su_quote][su_quote style=”default”]Everything that has existed, lingers in the Eternity.[/su_quote][su_quote style=”default”]I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.[/su_quote][su_quote style=”default”]Evil is not something superhuman, it’s something less than human.[/su_quote][su_quote style=”default”]I married an archaeologist because the older I grow, the more he appreciates me.[/su_quote][su_quote style=”default”]Every murderer is probably somebody’s old friend.[/su_quote][su_quote style=”default”]Any woman can fool a man if she wants to and if he’s in love with her.[/su_quote][/su_expand]

Agatha Christie died at the age of 85 in her home in Oxfordshire and is buried in the churchyard of St. Mary’s Cholsey.

I haven’t been to her death location, I’ll share with you a couple of vacation photographs I took a few years back when I lived in the UK.

Agatha’s grave from Findagrave.

Burgh Island, not too far from Plymouth on the south coast.

It’s an amazing art deco hotel where Agatha was inspired to write Evil Under the Sun and Ten Little N**gers (I’m afraid for my life if I write OMG THE WORD) n-words.

In Evil Under the Sun, the hotel was called The Jolly Roger Hotel.

In the book there was a concrete causeway that allowed access to the island. In reality it’s much more dramatic.

You could technically walk over to the hotel at low tide. Once the tide comes in you must take the Sea Tractor to reach the island.

Low tide

High tide

The Sea Tractor

Once on the island and checked in, you are on foot.

The Art Deco main building.

This is the view of the cove from the hotel.

I was there with this guy I used to go out with.

We hit the pub, the Pichard Inn, serving the island for 700 years. Let that sink in.

Pilchard Inn photograph taken from the Hotel’s official website.

Check out The official Agatha Christie website.