A luxury flat in Chelsea once owned by Britain’s most famous murder mystery writer has gone on sale for nearly £2million.
The renovated two-bedroom apartment in Swan Court was Agatha Christie’s home from 1948 until her death in 1976, and is believed to have inspired the backdrop to a Hercule Poirot novel.
The Queen of Crime bought the apartment in Chelsea, West London, with her second husband, archaeologist Sir Max Mallowan, after WWII ended in 1948.
The happily married couple used it as their London pied-à-terre for almost three decades until the author’s death.
During that time, Christie is believed to have worked there
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