{"title": "Agatha Christie: A World of Mystery", "start": "2026-10-30T00:00:00Z", "end": "2027-06-20T00:00:00+01:00", "place": "The British Library", "address": "", "price": "£20-£25", "price_from": "20.00", "price_to": "25.00", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["literature/crime"], "description": "A major exhibition about the life of Agatha Christie, the Queen of Crime. It explores how her travels, from train journeys across continents to archaeological digs, inspired stories and characters like Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple. Visitors can step into spaces evoking her world, including a country house, a WWI dispensary, an Orient Express-style carriage and a West End theatre, while hunting for hidden clues. On display are letters, notebooks, photographs, early drafts and objects such as her 1937 Remington typewriter.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/agatha-christie-a-world-of-mystery-129573/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/92f45806de3fa87840c347ecacddb79398ac0a9aa0b81b4bab30ac685465b006-1200.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-10-30T00:00:00Z", "end": "2027-06-20T00:00:00+01:00", "place": "The British Library", "address": "", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "The Murdér Express Part Deux -Jewel Of The Empire", "start": "2026-11-06T00:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Pedley Street Station", "address": "Pedley Street, E1 5BW London", "price": "Tickets from £92.90 - £99.50", "price_from": "92.90", "price_to": "99.50", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["food-drink"], "description": "The Murdér Express Part Deux -Jewel Of The Empire is an immersive theatrical dining experience and murder mystery set aboard a train at Pedley Street Station in Bethnal Green, East London, in the year 1937. It is the sequel to the award-winning show The Murdér Express, which won the DesignMyNight Awards 2019 Best Experience in London, and is produced by Funicular Productions. In the story, Britain's most famous archaeologist, Dr. Errol Earhart, has unearthed the world's most valuable diamond, the Jewel of the Empire, which is being transported via the Murdér Express to the Von Cleethorpes estate; the diamond goes missing, bodies pile up, and guests must help catch a killer. The experience includes a bespoke three course menu curated by the award-winning restaurant Lunar, 1930s-inspired cocktails available to purchase, and live actors, with guests treated as suspects.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/the-murder-express-part-deux-jewel-of-the-empire-45808/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/bf642b3d49375704344d66b0a1053438e99f239b3a07cd57c6f4471b30cfcc94-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Time Travelling with Dickens. With Elly Griffiths.", "start": "2026-11-11T12:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Charles Dickens Museum", "address": "Doughty Street 48-49, WC1N 2LX London", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/crime"], "description": "A free talk at the Charles Dickens Museum, held in person and on Zoom with a live Q&A. Author Elly Griffiths joins Lucinda Hawksley, Dickens's great great great granddaughter, in conversation. She discusses her new novella The Case of the Christmas Card, in which Charles Dickens travels to 2024 and visits his former home at 48 Doughty Street, along with time travel, crime fiction, her series 'The Frozen People' and writing about Christmas. The event lasts about 60 minutes.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/time-travelling-with-dickens-with-elly-griffiths-35244/", "official_url": "https://dickensmuseum.com/blogs/all-events/in-conversation-with-elly-griffiths", "image": "https://noky.io/images/ab5b9d6ffab9f0d3aafd0c16e954b99dc8594c1fb1969ea0542060b83be5ba45-600.webp"}, {"title": "Character Actors at the Queen's House", "start": "2026-11-08T12:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Queen's House", "address": "SE10 9NF London", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["art/painting"], "description": "Character Actors at the Queen's House invites visitors to meet historical characters connected to the Queen's House and take part in exciting performances. On this date, join Inspector Canvass to discover hidden clues in the paintings hanging at the House. 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The story follows Leonard Vole, arrested for the murder of his wealthy older lover Emily French, whose wife Romaine testifies for the prosecution as part of a complex plan, with shocking twists right up to the final verdict. The tale began as a short story published in 1925 and reached book form in 1933. 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Visitors can review cases involving figures such as Moll Cutpurse, Dick Turpin, Jack Sheppard, Oscar Wilde and Sylvia Pankhurst, and see how records illuminate lives, homes and streets of London's past. Paid curator-led tours of the exhibition run on selected dates.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/exhibition-londoners-on-trial-crime-courts-and-the-public-12-37563/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/af77e44b2b3c97fc7ab7ca2082948cdb2273965739813a3760df7d9cd9a59eeb-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Victorian Murder Mystery", "start": "2026-11-07T13:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Mr Foggs Residence", "address": "Bruton Lane 14, London", "price": "£58", "price_from": "58.00", "price_to": "58.00", "category": "workshops-courses", "tags": ["games/murder-mystery", "history/victorian"], "description": "Victorian Murder Mystery is an immersive two-hour murder mystery experience at Mr Fogg's Residence in Mayfair, London. It is set in 1873, when Mr John Sullivan collapses at a card game at the Mayfair residence of Mr Phileas J. Fogg, poisoned through his cocktail. Guests form teams to interrogate suspects such as Miss Julia Forester and Andrew Stuart, guided by Inspector Fix, and have one hour to expose the poisoner. The experience costs £58 per person, including two themed cocktails from a select menu.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/victorian-murder-mystery-91506/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/72af8844689921a50cd1efaf98722b9c513190e75352b96b4e7010e40f092f2c-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Clare Granger Parallels", "start": "2026-10-21T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-06T00:00:00Z", "place": "Cricket Fine Art", "address": "Park Walk 2", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/painting/figurative-painting"], "description": "'Parallels' is a solo exhibition of paintings by Clare Granger at the London gallery Cricket Fine Art, showing works in oil on canvas such as 'Three Palm Trees' and 'Punting'. It is her fifth show with the gallery, and the paintings come together from parallel thoughts and observations of lives lived in different parts of the world. Granger takes inspiration from observing people and places far from her rural English life, finding parallels across East and West while exploring colour and the effects of light.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/clare-granger-parallels-35487/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/72911c94c4e6679df579b12e6660e1e9dba4d52a82379c1edbb786d61cf71c46-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Film tour: Spies, Sleuths and Superheroes", "start": "2026-11-08T11:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Old Royal Naval College Visitor Centre", "address": "King William Walk", "price": "£25 (Adults), £10 (Children), £52.50 (Family of 4), £19 (Concessions), £6 (Universal Credit)", "price_from": "10.00", "price_to": "25.00", "category": "tours", "tags": ["film/thriller"], "description": "A guided film-location tour through the Old Royal Naval College, exploring where spy thrillers, detective stories and superhero blockbusters such as Operation Mincemeat, Sherlock Holmes, Slow Horses, Doctor Strange, Skyfall and The Dark Knight Rises were shot. The tour is run by the Old Royal Naval College, recognised as the UK's no. 1 heritage film location, a historic site at the heart of British filmmaking for more than 100 years. It includes a Naval Intelligence briefing inspired by James Bond, an interactive code-breaking mission to recover a stolen artefact, behind-the-scenes stories, film stills and expert guides, and lasts 1 hour 15 minutes. The ticket also includes entry to the Painted Hall and the Chapel of St Peter & St Paul.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/film-tour-spies-sleuths-and-superheroes-37522/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/c14fdc607514318eb4dda866c4d9f9f63badc940f445d41632edc7d5c464b749-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Mousetrap", "start": "2026-11-06T19:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "St Martin's", "address": "Vicar's Road, NW5 4NN London", "price": "GBP 18", "price_from": "18.00", "price_to": null, "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/theatre/crime"], "description": "Mousetrap is a murder mystery play in which five guests snowed in at a rural hotel are warned by a policeman that a murderer is on the run, and are investigated until a cunning trap reveals the killer. It was written by Agatha Christie, first opening as a stage play in 1952, and keeps audiences guessing with suspense, misdirection and a twist ending that no one who has seen it reveals. The current cast includes Lara Lemon, Harry Bradley, Richard Leeming, Rekha John-Cheriyan, Owen Oakeshott, Grace Darling, Alasdair Buchan and Daniel Rainford. The show runs for about 2 hours and 20 minutes, including a 20-minute interval, and is recommended for ages 7 and up.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/mousetrap-63413/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/6c6ac705dd884e11c638a9c1a2960acccf2f778341e0ae17d3fad972a9226be5-600.webp"}, {"title": "Stolen! Theft in the archives", "start": "2026-10-12T09:00:00+01:00", "end": "2027-03-18T19:00:00Z", "place": "London School of Economics and Political Science", "address": "Houghton Street, WC2A 2AE London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["history/archives", "society/crime"], "description": "\"Stolen! Theft in the archives\" is an exhibition at the LSE Library Gallery, open to all. It is hosted by LSE Library and curated by an international team, including Hannah Boroudjou, Daniel Brambilla-Payne, Chelsea Collison, and Silvia Gallotti. The exhibition explores theft in different forms: wealth taken by others, ideas obscured by the published record, and robbed legacies, showing how theft shapes what we remember and what we forget. It features stories on Harriet Taylor Mill, documents from the investigation into the murder of socialist MP Giacomo Matteotti, student research on Marxism, Hansa Mehta's possible connection to LSE, the Fabian Society, AI, and more.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/stolen-theft-in-the-archives-37075/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/ed61683bee0719d155b5dab914a666bd4712cc8f6b612d04395b93da2e902193-600.webp"}, {"title": "Christmas with the Dickens hosted by Lucinda Dickens Hawksley", "start": "2026-11-18T17:15:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Charles Dickens Museum", "address": "Doughty Street 48-49, WC1N 2LX London", "price": "£59", "price_from": "59.00", "price_to": "59.00", "category": "tours", "tags": ["history/victorian", "occasion/christmas"], "description": "Christmas with the Dickens is an intimate evening event at the Charles Dickens Museum, the London home of the young Charles Dickens and his family. It is hosted by Lucinda Dickens Hawksley, the great-great-great granddaughter of Charles Dickens, an art historian, broadcaster and author. Guests hear about the Victorian Christmas traditions her ancestor promoted, take a guided tour of the historic house, and join a ceremonial serving of Christmas pudding. The gathering ends with conversation and questions with Lucinda, and every ticket sold supports the museum's charity.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/christmas-with-the-dickens-hosted-by-lucinda-dickens-hawksle-35247/", "official_url": "https://dickensmuseum.com/blogs/all-events/victorian-christmas-dickens", "image": "https://noky.io/images/40919fdaeb952ecb52f74df62fd42a0d1e31a78589dea52bf4b988e45f95d076-600.webp"}, {"title": "SOLVE-ALONG A MURDER SHE WROTE", "start": "2026-11-19T19:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-20T00:00:00Z", "place": "Royal Vauxhall Tavern", "address": "372 Kennington Lane, SE11 5HY London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "comedy", "tags": ["film/mystery"], "description": "Solve-Along-A-Murder-She-Wrote is a cult hit interactive screening night of the classic Murder, She Wrote episode “Dead Man’s Gold”, featuring games, prizes and audience participation as Jessica Fletcher investigates a murder during a search for buried treasure. Created and hosted by super-fan Tim Benzie, an award-winning playwright, it includes a race to solve the crime via the Fameometer and Suspiciometer, a Cabot Cove quiz, a singalong to the theme tune with new lyrics, and clips of the campy guest stars. The show has played to sell-out audiences across the UK, Ireland, the USA and Australia, at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Adelaide Fringe and more, and was rated by Time Out among 2021 and 2019’s 50 Great Nights Out in London. It continues its residency at the Royal Vauxhall Tavern with special permission from NBC Universal Television.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/solve-along-a-murder-she-wrote-70380/", "official_url": "https://www.vauxhalltavern.com/events/event/solve-along-a-murder-she-wrote-2/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/fc529aa57495657385ec4bbc19f74029e898719bb569e9f56cff761584df1e84-600.webp"}, {"title": "Private Tour: First World War", "start": "2026-04-01T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2027-04-02T00:00:00+01:00", "place": "IWM London", "address": "", "price": "£235–£300 per group depending on time", "price_from": "235.00", "price_to": "300.00", "category": "tours", "tags": ["history/world-war/world-war-i"], "description": "A one-hour private tour of the First World War Galleries at IWM London, booked for a date to suit you. Expert IWM guides lead visitors through the museum's collections, revealing the stories behind objects such as artillery guns, uniforms, love letters and art. Highlights include a recreated trench with a Sopwith Camel fighter plane overhead and a Mark V tank. The tour explains how the First World War started, why it continued and its global impact, and can take place inside or outside museum hours.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/private-tour-first-world-war-95919/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/c113ae628e281091685e4f026ca18cd72fcd06fdb5d023d711cd55653dce7ad8-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Locomotive For Murder: The Improvised Whodunnit", "start": "2026-11-07T00:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Queen's Theatre", "address": "RM11 1QT Hornchurch", "price": "Tickets £18.70 | £22.70 | £26.70, concessions £18.70, under 26s £10 (inc. 70p QNext fee)", "price_from": "18.70", "price_to": "26.70", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["comedy/improv"], "description": "Pinch Punch present 'Locomotive For Murder: The Improvised Whodunnit', a fully improvised murder mystery comedy. Four characters board a train, not everyone survives, and a world-famous detective is onboard to crack the case. Only the murderer knows who did it, and the audience helps solve the crime using their stories and suggestions, making each show unique. Expect shaky alibis, silver-tongued sleuths and laughs throughout.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/locomotive-for-murder-the-improvised-whodunnit-64303/", "official_url": "https://queens-theatre.co.uk/shows-items/locomotive-for-murder-the-improvised-whodunnit-2/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/10c4ec4537941680c089f5912fdd20143d1a9222b598addd1fa1e79cf77ab199-600.webp"}, {"title": "Murder, She Didn't Write", "start": "2026-10-27T00:00:00Z", "end": "2027-04-19T23:30:00+01:00", "place": "Duchess Theatre", "address": "Catherine Street 3-5, WC2B 5LA London", "price": "GBP 19.50", "price_from": "19.50", "price_to": "29.50", "category": "comedy", "tags": ["stage/theatre/comedy", "comedy/improv"], "description": "Murder, She Didn't Write is an improvised comedy show that creates a brand-new murder mystery live on stage at every performance. It is staged at the Duchess Theatre in London's West End. Edinburgh Fringe favourites Degrees of Error use audience suggestions to act out an original, Agatha Christie-inspired whodunnit, and the audience must solve it. Each show lasts 2 hours including an interval and is recommended for ages 12 and up.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/murder-she-didnt-write-37390/", "official_url": "https://nimaxtheatres.com/shows/murder-she-didnt-write/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/3ee5c95014f67ca5e5bb7c8ab009652a150b60f2ad5a8e5bc25985e80f9403ef-2000.webp"}]}