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On September 15, Istanbul will honor late crime writer Agatha Christie by celebrating her 120th birthday at The Pera Palace hotel.
The hotel, established in 1892, will reopen as a museum-hotel on September 1, following two-and-a-half-years of reconstruction work. The project cost 23 millions euros, reports Today’s Zaman.
Agatha Christie, Ernest Hemingway, Greta Garbo have been famous guests of the hotel, reports Cumhurriyet. The Pera Palace Hotel is said to be where Christie got the inspiration for her famous novel “Murder on the Orient Express” and a small key, probably the key to her diary, was found in her favourite room, 411.