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Searching for clues in Agatha Christie’s home

On the 120th anniversary of her birth, an atmospheric trip to Devon reveals much about the author.

Any one of them was capable of it, she mused, as she stole a glance round the bus at her fellow passengers. Her eyes fell first on the couple behind the driver. There was something distinctly out of place about them, she thought, and then it struck her: the woman’s hair.