Beijing (CNN) -- "Please excuse me, I can't talk about this." 

Clunk! The phone line goes dead. 

We had tried to get this British businessman to talk about the mysterious death of Neil Heywood. 

Heywood has emerged from the shadows to be a key link in a story of intrigue, mystery and betrayal that goes all the way to the inner sanctum of China's secretive Communist Party. 

Heywood was found dead last November in his hotel room in the sprawling southwestern Chinese city of Chongqing. According to media reports, local authorities quickly ruled his cause of death as "excessive alcohol use." An autopsy was not performed, media reports said, and his body was cremated. 

Slowly, however, media reports are raising more uncomfortable questions about Heywood's death. He was married to a Chinese woman and had business interests in the country. He moved in the orbit of a company known as Hakluyt and Co., a British strategic information consultancy formed by former officers of the UK's spy agency MI6. 

Hakluyt has released a statement on Heywood, saying, "We had a long history of advising Western companies on China and we are among those who sought (Heywood's) advice. We are greatly saddened by his death." 

Now, the British government is asking China to investigate Heywood's death. 

"Our embassy in Beijing and consulate general in Chongqing provided consular assistance to the family, as we would in any case involving a British national overseas," the Foreign and Commonwealth Office said. "We recently asked the Chinese authorities to investigate the case further after we heard suggestions that there were suspicious circumstances." 

Based on the article and the following list of answers, write a list of questions.

1. Neil Heywood
2. Chongqing
3. southwestern China
4. excessive alcohol use
5. a Chinese woman
6. no
7. a story of intrigue, mystery and betrayal
8. the inner sanctum of China's secretive Communist Party
9. company known as Hakluyt and Co
10. a British strategic information consultancy
11. former officers of the UK's spy agency MI6
12. the British government

Numbered questions:
1. Who died?
2. Where was he?
3. Where is that?
4. What was said was the cause of his death?
5. Who was he married to?
6. Was an Autopsy done?
7. What is he a link to?
8. To what?
9. Who was he acquainted with?
10. What is that?
11. Who formed it?
12. Who is asking China to look into the death?