By Carl Larsen
You might call Agatha Christie’s Greenway Estate the scene of the crime — well, many crimes, that is.
Acclaimed as the world’s best-selling author, Christie spent a large part of her career writing those spellbinding mysteries at her Greenway retreat overlooking the River Dart, a few miles from Torquay, where she was born in 1890 on the south coast of England. She lived at Greenway with her second husband, prominent Middle East archeologist Max Mallowan, who was 14 years younger.
Surveying the lush gardens, views across the river and the two-story home, there is no mystery as to why they purchased the property in 1938, even as war clouds loomed on the horizon. It would have been a crime not to, especially at the bargain price offered….