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Checking in to a fictional world: the enduring appeal of literary hotels

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par Rebecca Hutcheon, Research Fellow at the Faculty of Business and Creative Industries, University of South Wales

At a literary event at Burgh Island Hotel in south Devon recently, the novelist Catherine Newman remarked that whenever she looked down from the island’s steep cliffs while walking, she half-expected to discover a body.

It was an apt response to a place that helped inspire Agatha Christie’s crime novels, including Evil Under the Sun. In the novel, Christie makes the island’s isolation part of the mystery. When character Emily Brewster remarks, “This isn’t the sort of place you’d get a body”,…

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