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Famous for penning some of the best loved thrillers and murder mysteries of all time, Agatha Christie’s own home is thankfully less of a crime scene and has just been opened up to the public for the first time.

Agatha’s Devon holiday home, Greenway House, has been opened up to the public by the National Trust for the first time.

The famous author snapped up the house in 1938 and used it as a holiday retreat until 1959. Although it was donated to the National Trust in 2000, Agatha’s husband and daughter lived in it until they died in 2005, so it is only recently that the Trust has set about restoring it.

They have ploughed £5.4 million into restoring the home to its 1950’s style, which is when Agatha herself would have lived in it.

Now that the public can view the Devon property for themselves, they will be able to have a glimpse into the creative mind that spawned Hercule Poirot and many other well known detectives and murder mystery characters.

As the restoration work is still in progress, visitors will be able to witness the final stage of the re-creation process, which will see Agatha’s bedroom, dining room and ‘fax room’, where her novels will be displayed, opened up once more.

The house was once the setting for ‘Dead Man's Folly,’ another Poirot mystery that was adapted for the big screen and starred Peter Ustinov.

Visitors will not only be able to visit the house, but also will have the opportunity to rent part of it out for holidays.