Episode 7 of Bilateral View discusses the Indian hill station of Mussoorie, Agatha Christie, Rudyard Kipling, Arthur Conan Doyle, and their connection with the famous Savoy Hotel. What ghosts are lurking in this sleepy hill station town from Uttarakhand, in northern India? Was a murder really committed in the Savoy, in 1911? Was Frances Garnett Orme really killed by her friend Eva ‘Mount Stephens’? Is Garnett Orme’s ghost still haunting the establishment? Did Agatha Christie borrow the plot of her first detective novel, “The Mysterious Affair at Styles” from this incident? What does Hercules Poirot owe to India? Why have newspapers been reporting wrongly on this matter for so long? What does Ruskin Bond’s beautiful writing have to do with it? Why did women turn occult and begin practicing seances in Victorian England? Listen to our podcast to find out the answers to these questions.
Educator, Academic & Author
Arup K. Chatterjee 