Think about surfing and you’ll likely come up with ... But from a historical perspective, you might as well think of crime novelist Agatha Christie hanging 10 in a “skimpy” emerald-green ...

She may have made waves in crime writing, but Agatha Christie also liked to ride the waves as it is revealed the writer was one of the first Britons to try surfing. The writer didn’t stop at the ...

7. Agatha Christie loved surfing. The image of Christie as a matronly author of mystery is the one most easily recognized by readers, but there was a time when Christie could be found catching waves.

Agatha Christie wrote her first novel ... founder of the Museum of British Surfing. In 1922, Christie’s first husband, Archie, was helping to organize a world tour promoting the British ...

Through her marriage to Archibald Christie and his job promoting ... been among the first Europeans to learn the art of surfing standing up. Agatha became skilled at body-boarding in South Africa ...

AGATHA CHRISTIE An Elusive Woman By Lucy Worsley ... They will delight in seeing photographs of the author surfing in Hawaii, or learning that her favorite drink was a glass of neat cream.