Do Not Disturb: Hotels for Crime and Writing
By Dirk Robertson
September 1, 2011Hotels all over the world play their electrifying part in crime stories. Agatha Christie, for example, liked hotels. The mistress of crime penned Hercule Poirot’s adventure Murder on the Orient Express (1934) in Istanbul’s Pera Palace Hotel. (The establishment, in a fit of public relations wisdom, wisely keeps the room as an homage to her…