The house has three reception rooms In her autobiography published a year after her death the author reveals how she and her husband came to buy the house in the village a few miles from Thame. She says the period before the outbreak of the Second World War was a particularly carefree time for the couple. They were also spending a lot of time in Syria looking for antiquities for Max to add to his collection. In the autumn of 1934, a week before they were due to leave for a further trip to the Middle East, they decided to look for a country cottage not too far from London. The fancied a weekend bolthole.
The Oxfordshire home of Dame Agatha Christie has just come on to the market. The beautiful Grade II listed Winterbrook House in Wallingford was the birthplace of some of the greatest crime novels of the 20th Century. It is believed that the legendary author created the fictional detectives Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple in the library while living here with her archaeologist second husband Max Mallowan. They couple moved in in 1934 after she spotted it advertised in a local newspaper. She lived in the house for more than 40 years until her death in 1976. She is buried in nearby St Mary s churchyard in Cholsey.
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image captionAgatha Christie lived at Winterbrook House in Wallingford from 1934 until her death in 1976
The house where Dame Agatha Christie wrote some of her most famous crime novels is up for sale with a guide price of more than £2.75m.
The creator of fictional sleuths Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple moved into Winterbrook House in Wallingford, Oxfordshire, in 1934.
She lived at the Grade II-listed property, which comes complete with a blue plaque, until her death in 1976.
The current owners described it as a wonderful family home .
The five-bedroom house faces on to the River Thames and has a small cottage attached.