Mystery of four missing bathrobes at the Agatha Christie hotel; Anger of guests accused after u9,000 weekend celebration.

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From: The Daily Mail (London, England)
Date: 20030322
Author:Mills, James

Byline: JAMES MILLS

IT is a renowned u300-a-night hotel where Agatha Christie stayed in the Thirties to write her murder mystery And Then There Were None.

But now the grade II-listed art deco Burgh Island Hotel is at the centre of a different kind of riddle - the case of the missing bathrobes.

On one side is hotelier Deborah Clark, who claimed four u50 robes went astray when a party of 18 guests left after a weekend stay.

On the other is Jacquie Manners, to whom Mrs Clark wrote asking for the return of two of the robes after her group's u9,000 visit earlier this ...

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