£150
Dame Margaret Taylor Rutherford, DBE (1892-1972), a portrait photograph of the actress circa early 1960s as Agatha Christie’s detective Miss Marple, approx. 24 x 19cm, with her autograph on paper below “Every good wish Margaret Rutherford”, mounted and framed and glazed together in montage.
From the collection of Lindsay Spalding and Don Birch, former owners of the Beechwood Hotel, North Walsham. From the mid-1930s to 1967 The Beechwood was known as The Shrubs and was the country house home of Doctors Peter and Margaret McLeod who were close friends of crime writer Agatha Christie, having previously befriended her and her husband Max Mallowan at an archaeological dig in Mesopotamia in 1928. Dame Agatha was a regular visitor to The Shrubs, staying with the McLeods in room number 9 for a month at a time, writing her novels in a summerhouse in the grounds. She dedicated her novel Sad Cypress to the McLeods and it is possible that she wrote it while staying in North Walsham.
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