Mehmet Makryat

Mehmet Makryat is the name of an antique and art dealer who owns a shop in Islington, London. You have never met him but you learnt from the newspapers that he is Turkish. His whereabouts are currently unknown. Neighbours described him as "elderly" without giving a specific age.

"Mehmet Makryat" is also the identity used on the fake passports of three dead bodies found at the Chelsea Arms Hotel on the night of the 3rd of January 1923. All three looked similar, Turkish men in their 30s with a moustache. The bodies had been carefully skinned, one the arms, one the legs and the other one the torso. The passports revealed all three men had been extensively and independently travelling all over Europe for the past three years. An identical telegram was found on each corpse, reading: "MEET ME IN LONDON AT ONCE. URGENT. M."

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