The Body On Archangel Beach - Facts

 The book starts in June 1931. Clairvaux is where Edgar went to prison to. Clairvaux Abbey was a Cistercian monastery in Ville-sous-la-Ferté, 15 kilometres from Bar-sur-Aube. The abbey was founded in 1115 by Bernard of Clairvaux. As a primary abbey, it was one of the most significant monasteries in the order. Dissolved during the French Revolution, it was used from 1808 to 2023 as Clairvaux Prison, a high-security correctional facility. 

Angela and Edgar had the intention to travel on the Olympic from Cherbourg to America. RMS Olympic was a British ocean liner and the lead ship of the White Star Line's trio of Olympic-class liners. Olympic had a career spanning 24 years from 1911 to 1935. 

Cherbourg iscated at the northern end of the Cotentin peninsula in the northwestern French department of Manche. It was a stopping point for prestigious transatlantic liners in the first half of the 20th century.

Edgar and Angela decide to go to Rhodes on their honeymoon. Rhodes, the largest of Greece’s Dodecanese islands, is known for its beach resorts, ancient ruins and remnants of its occupation by the Knights of St. John during the Crusades. 

Angela visit Lindos in Rhodes. Lindos is an archaeological site, a fishing village and a former municipality on the island of Rhodes.

Sophia comes from Salonika. Thessaloniki, also known as  Salonika, or Salonica, is the second-largest city in Greece and the capital of the geographic region of Macedonia.