{"id":609129,"date":"2026-09-08T01:06:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-08T01:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/609129\/"},"modified":"2026-09-08T01:06:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T01:06:11","slug":"come-to-the-british-librarys-agatha-christie-show-if-you-dare-the-art-newspaper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/609129\/","title":{"rendered":"Come to the British Library\u2019s Agatha Christie show\u2014if you dare – The Art Newspaper"},"content":{"rendered":"

Whodunnit? The British Library did it. That is, planned an exhibition dedicated to the queen of crime fiction, Agatha Christie. The show<\/a> in London later this year (30 October-20 June 2027) promises to \u201cgo behind the books to explore how Christie\u2019s life, travels and interests informed her work and the creation of her iconic characters\u201d, revealing the author behind classic detective novels such as Murder on the Orient Express and Death on the Nile. <\/p>\n

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Agatha Christie under a tree on Honolulu beach after surfing, 1922 \u00a9 The Christie Archive Trust<\/p>\n

The exhibition includes photographs of Christie as a child, with her family at their home in Torquay on England\u2019s south coast, and \u201croller skating with friends\u201d. Other interesting nuggets will be displayed, including photographs capturing Christie surfing in Hawaii in 1922 alongside a replica of the surfboard used. (Who knew?) Christie has been immortalised by artists and sculptors, including Elisabeth Hadley, who unveiled her effigy of the crime supremo\u2014alongside her favourite dog, Peter\u2014in Torquay last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Whodunnit? The British Library did it. That is, planned an exhibition dedicated to the queen of crime fiction,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":609130,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[437,434,435,436,275892,438,139524,146,6545,85,46,425,442],"class_list":["post-609129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-artsdesign","tag-british-library","tag-design","tag-diary","tag-entertainment","tag-exhibitions","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-literature","tag-london"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=609129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609129\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/609130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=609129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=609129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=609129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}