More than 100 people were stuck for several hours in Greenway, the former home of the famous British detective writer Agatha Christie, in the English countryside on Friday, News.ro writes with reference to CNN.

In a series of events that could have been taken straight from the pages of one of Christie’s detective novels, a group of tourists became stranded after bad weather brought down a tree, blocking the road leading to a Devon property in the south and west of England.

Caroline Haven, a tourist visiting the Greenway, contacted local news station Devon Live to share the news that around 100 tourists were trapped in the grounds of the former Christie’s holiday home.

The British National Trust, which manages the historic site, quickly posted on its website that a tree had fallen onto the single track road leading to the Greenway.

A National Trust spokesman said he was aware there were still “visitors, staff and volunteers on the Greenway who are unable to leave”, adding that the National Trust was “doing everything” to ensure their comfort over time, what are you waiting for?

Stranded tourists were kept busy drinking cups of tea in teahouses and playing cricket on the lawns, Haven told Devon Live.

Heaven, who arrived at the house on Friday, praised the efforts of the staff in looking after the tourists.

“They’re doing a great job, giving us free teas and stuff. It’s kind of gloomy,” she said.

According to the National Trust website, Christie herself spent hours on the Greenway lawns playing golf and entertaining guests with excerpts from her latest mystery novels.

Trapped tourists would also have time to explore the estate’s walled gardens and the famous boathouse that serves as the scene of a murder in Christie’s novel Dead Man’s Folly.

Despite the seemingly relaxed atmosphere, some social media users couldn’t help but draw parallels with Christie’s cult novel And Then There Were None, in which ten strangers are inexplicably invited to an isolated mansion on the Devon coast. As members of the group are mysteriously killed, the group soon realizes that the killer is among them.

One social media user shared a link to the Devon Live article with a countdown on Twitter: “99, 98, 97, 96, 94 (awful), 93.” Another user shared the article, advising stranded tourists to “immediately implement a buddy system.”

However, the tourists suffered a less dire fate than Christie’s heroes, managing to leave the area on Friday night after local rescue services managed to reopen the road.

However, those wanting to experience the magic of Christie’s crime mystery will have to wait a little longer, as the National Trust warned would-be visitors in an update on Saturday that the Greenway will remain closed due to the “significant storm damage” it suffered. (News.ro)