Agatha Christie

Dame Agatha Christie (1890 to 1976) was an English author best known for her detective novels and short stories featuring Hercule Poirot, Miss Marple and Tommy and Tuppence, and for the stage play The Mousetrap. In the sport atlas she belongs as an early recreational surfer. During a ten month promotional tour of the British Empire in 1922 with her first husband Archibald Christie, she learned to surf prone in South Africa and then, at Waikiki in Hawaii, was among the first Britons to surf standing up, extending the stay by three months to practise. The Museum of British Surfing remembers her for describing the rush through the water as one of the most perfect physical pleasures she had known.