THE new book The Grand Tour: Around The World With The Queen of Mystery, edited by Agatha Christie’s grandson, Mathew Prichard, reveals that the great British crime writer visited Jenolan Caves in June 1922 and stayed in Caves House.
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The following is a quote from the book, where on June 23, 1922, she wrote to her brother, Louis ‘Monty’ Montant Miller:
“After a meal we were taken as a ‘special party’ (guests of the Government!) round the Orient Cave which is supposed to be the best. It really is wonderful, you go for two miles through the bowels of the earth, up and down steps (1500 in all – and you know it next morning!) twisting in and out through labyrinths and coming to the different chambers. You go along a wire netted path – the first cave they discovered was entirely destroyed in three months by everyone pulling bits off. It’s lighted up with electric lights all concealed behind the rocks – really wonderfully done. The worst thing to bear is the guide’s humorous remarks! I could have spent a week there quite happily.”
