Hello and welcome to Story Norrie. This is Janna and I'm here with the latest episode

in our spooky series, The Dutch Hotel, The Ghost Writer.

Nafsi and Yogi are brother and sister who live in London's Dutch hotel, run by their parents,

Alan and Angelicke and there's one thing that makes the hotel more interesting than most.

It is haunted. Two sets of staff work at the hotel.

The living ones of the present and the ghostly ones of the past, who appear from time to time.

You never know when the ghostly ones might show up.

Since Alan and Angelicke reopen the hotel, it's become a fashionable resting place on the London scene.

If you like spotting famous faces, you might catch some celebrity guests at the Dutch Hotel.

Royalty, actors, politicians, TV professors, opera stars, rappers, YouTubers and influencers.

But you might not notice a writer because authors are more famous for their words than their faces.

Sometimes a writer's mugshot might make it onto the back cover of their book.

But unless they are unusually beautiful or handsome, it will be a miniature picture of their face.

Every autumn, just such a person stayed at the Dutch Hotel.

He was the historical novelist, Angus McPeebody, whose lifetime habit was to spend the autumn

months in London. His favourite place to stay was Suite 13 at the Dutch Hotel.

In this very room, back in 1973, he had composed the opening chapter of his best-selling novel,

The Forbidden Waltz. It was later made into a movie bringing him fame and fortune,

though you probably would not recognise his face.

One morning in early October, the kids, Nafsi and Yogi were walking past the door of room 13

on the way up to the apartment, where they lived with their parents. They both stopped when they heard a sound.

What's that, Oss, Nafsi? Maybe one of the ghosts is clientean some chance to get ready for Halloween!

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