Half Moon Street

During World War 2, Agatha Christie rented out Greenway to be used as a nursery for children evacuated from St Pancras Hospital. She therefore decided to move to London to join her husband Max who was working for Turkish Relief. Christie's various properties in London had tenants so she and Max first moved into a rented flat on Half Moon Street in Mayfair.

Christie found Half Moon Street disconcerting. She observed that her flat was part of a house which "stood up like a tooth–the houses on either side of it were missing...." as many of the buildings in the area had been destroyed by a bomb just ten days before she moved in. It was for this reason that her flat was available for rent, as its owners had moved out quickly. Despite its location in the exclusive Mayfair, Christie found her flat uncomfortable. "It smelt horribly of dirt and grease and cheap scent," she noted.

After a week at Half Moon Street, Agatha and Max moved to a service apartment in Park Place, also in Mayfair.

Half Moon Street is also the location of Fleming's Hotel, one of two hotels that lay claim to being the hotel upon which Bertram's Hotel is based.