Word: vikram
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Deputy Superintendent Narindar Nath Tuli, 52, a crack New Delhi detective, got a strange feeling when a call came in from the three-star Vikram Hotel. The agitated hotel manager complained that 20 French tourists registered at the hotel were vomiting and rolling about as if they were drunk. Worse, they were accusing the manager of having poisoned them. Tuli, remembering that Interpol had alerted police to a series of druggings and murders of tourists in India and Southeast Asia, rushed over to the Vikram. There he was struck by a peculiar fact: only one of the group...