A centuries-old town snuggled on the banks of the Thames in Oxfordshire, Wallingford is bathed in English charm – rosy-bricked houses, hollyhock-peppered lanes and timbered pubs.
Yet a whiff of murder infuses this cosy idyll. For it’s here that Agatha Christie, the world’s most successful crime writer, penned bestselling works, devising ingenious plots and gruesome ways to die –) to strangulation by ukulele string (). Now the town is celebrating its famous literary resident with a new statue and a slew of murder-mystery events.
