Agatha Christie exhibition shows queen of crime as roller-skater and surfer

Family photographs of Poirot’s creator a world away from how most people picture her included in show to mark 125th anniversary of her birth

They include photographs of her surfing on to an idyllic Muizenberg beach in South Africa, hanging out in Honolulu wearing her favourite emerald-green knitted bathing suit and roller-skating in an ankle-length skirt down Torquay pier.

The images are of Agatha Christie and are a world away from how most people picture the crime writer – often as a friendly older woman at work on a battered Remington typewriter.

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