Savoy Hotel

Uttarakhand · Indien · Hotel

Poisoned spiritualist Frances Garnett-Orme is said to wander the corridors still, searching for her killer.

The venerable Savoy Hotel in Mussoorie became the scene of an unsolved murder mystery in 1911. Spiritualist Frances Garnett-Orme was found dead behind a locked door, poisoned with prussic acid slipped into her medicine bottle. Her companion and séance partner stood trial but was acquitted, and shortly afterwards Garnett-Orme's doctor also died – of strychnine. The case, passed along by Rudyard Kipling, is said to have inspired Agatha Christie's debut mystery. Guests have since described a serene woman in white drifting through corridors and across the roof, and doors opening on their own – as if she is still hunting for her murderer.

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Where is Savoy Hotel located?

Savoy Hotel is in Uttarakhand, Indien.