Savoy Hotel Ghost Legend and the Mussoorie Murder

Record summary

The Savoy Hotel in Mussoorie became associated with the 1911 death of Frances Garnett-Orme, whose poisoning was investigated in colonial India and later linked in popular accounts to a haunting or ghostly presence. The murder, inquest and literary afterlife are identifiable through newspapers, court-related records and historical writing, whereas the paranormal extension is much less securely documented. This lead supports comparison between a real historical death, colonial hill-station culture, crime narrative, hotel branding and the later conversion of an unresolved or notorious episode into a ghost story.