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If you’re an Agatha Christie fan, you’ll know all about her love affair with property. The crime-fiction author was a compulsive homebuyer, snapping up flats and mews houses in London, cottages in the countryside and maintaining the upkeep of Ashfield, her beloved Torquay childhood home.

Today, Greenway in Devon is her most famous house – a handsome Georgian mansion sitting high above the River Dart – and it draws thousands of visitors each year. But the home she spent most of her life in flies well under the radar, as does the town

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