The Savoy Mystery

In 1911, a British spiritualist named    Fancis Omre  was found dead from hydrogen cyanide poisoning in her room at the Savoy Hotel in Mussoorie, India, with the door locked from the inside. 

Savoy hotel lies a little ahead of Mussoorie Library, on the road to Happy Valley. The hotel was built by Cecil D Lincoln, an Irish barrister from Lucknow, on the site of Reverend Maddock’s Mussoorie School, and was completed in 1902.

This mysterious death  at Mussoorie’s  Savoy Hotel gave Agatha Christie material for her first novel, "The Mysterious Affair at Styles" published in1920.

Agatha Christie never ever visited the hill station of Mussoorie in India. She came to India long long after the publication of the novel in the year 1960.

Agatha Christe came to know of the details of the Savoy hotel incident and created  Hercule Poirot to resolve the mystery in her novel "The Mysterious Affair at Styles". Hercule Poirot is one of the most famous detective in the world of fiction.

During World War I, Christie had worked in  a hospital, which gave her an intricate knowledge of various drugs and poisons. This helped her in crafting baffling murder methods in many of her novels, The Mysterious Affair at Styles. being the first. A case in point is the plot of the sensational 1932 kidnapping and murder of Charles Lindbergh's infant son, a case that garnered national attention. This case was reflected in her sensational novel "The Murder on the Orient Express". Many of the Agatha Christie novels were inspired by real life events 

Agatha Christie was born in the year 1890 and left this world in  1976. She was a prolific writer and wrote a total of 66 novels in her lifetime. Her resting place is the church St. Mary, Cholsey, Oxfordshire, England.

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