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The body in Agatha Christie's room

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From: Chicago Sun-Times
Date: 19971114
Author:SEAN O'NEILL

LONDON The riddle of the body in Room 131 could not have found a better setting than the Grand Hotel in Torquay - the English Channel hometown of crime writer Agatha Christie.

Since Sept. 24, police have puzzled over the identity and cause of death of a man found naked on the bed in the hotel where Christie spent her wedding night. It was in a room now called the Agatha Christie Suite, which has a mat bearing the outline of a body.

But the author could hardly have penned a more curious mystery than the one that today's detectives, with access to technology unheard of by Hercule Poirot and ...

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