Making Dickie Happy, Tristan Bates, London
Tristan Bates, London: Building on the fact that Noel Coward, Agatha Christie and Louis Mountbatten separately stayed at the same Devon hotel, Jeremy Kingston imagines them there together, where a string of encounters leads to the unlikely but dramatically intriguing development of Mountbatten giving Christie literary suggestions, Christie sharing her political opinions with Coward and Coward offering marital advice …