A Devon island that inspired Agatha Christie is up for sale with a £15m price tag.
The 21-acre Burgh Island, with hotel, pub and beach house, was the inspiration for her bestseller And Then There Were None. In that novel the guests find they are trapped and marked for murder – at high tide Burgh Island is cut off from Bigbury-on-Sea on the mainland, with a “sea-tractor” being the only form of transport.
In the Poirot novel Evil Under the Sun the island is once again linked with grisly deaths.
But in real life the Grade II listed hotel and Pelican Inn perform well, and the island is a tourist destination with visitors coming to see Christie’s beach house — a writer’s retreat built on the cliff edge just for her.
There is also now a helipad, in case you need to make a quick escape at high tide.
