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Agatha Christie and the mystery of her wrong address.

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From: The Evening Standard (London, England)
Date: 20011105
Author:Leitch, Luke

Byline: LUKE LEITCH

AGATHA CHRISTIE's most confounding mysteries were often solved by Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple. However it has taken a softly-spoken historian from English Heritage to unravel the queen of crimewriting's final conundrum - and prevent the blue plaque mounted in her honour today being placed on a house Christie never inhabited.

Emily Cole, EH's Blue Plaque Historian, has uncovered evidence that proves Christie lived at 58 Sheffield Terrace, Kensington - not number 48, the address Christie wrote in her autobiography and the spot to where her fans make ...

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