A mysterious death in India at Mussoorie’s Savoy Hotel gave Agatha Christie material for her first novel, "The Mysterious Affair at Styles" (1920).
In 1911, a British spiritualist was found dead under mysterious circumstances at the Savoy in her room, which was locked from inside.
Agatha Christe came to know of the details and created Hercule Poirot to resolve the mystery in her novel "The Mysterious Affair at Styles".
A little ahead of Mussoorie Library, on the road to Happy Valley, lies the Savoy. 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.
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