Miss Marple #10
At Bertram's Hotel
When Miss Marple comes up from the country for a holiday in London, she finds what she's looking for at Bertram's: traditional décor and impeccable service. But she senses an unmistakable atmosphere of danger behind the highly polished veneer. Not even Miss Marple can foresee the violent chain of events set in motion when an eccentric hotel guest makes his way to the airport one day late!
Librarian's note: this entry is for the novel, "At Bertram's Hotel." Collections and other Miss Marple stories are located elsewhere on Goodreads. The series includes 12 novels and 20 short stories. Entries for the short stories can be found by searching Goodreads for: "a Miss Marple Short Story."
223 pages, Paperback
First published January 1,1965
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223 pages, Paperback
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January 1, 2002 by HarperCollins
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English
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Canon Pennyfather
An expert on the Dead Sea Scrolls. He has been invited to be a guest speaker in Switzerland and is staying at Bertrams before his flight.more...
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Bess Sedgwick
Lady Sedgwick is a guest at the hotel. She is a flamboyant individual. About 40, she is renowned for her life of adventure and her many marriages....
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Elvira Blake
The Honourable Elvira Blake is staying at the hotel after returning from school in Italy. About 19. Beautiful....
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Michael Gorman
Micky is the doorman at Bertrams. He began working there about a month earlier. Irish, he had been in the military.more...
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Colonel Luscombe
Derek Luscombe is an older gentleman who is Elviras guardian. He helps manage her inheritance.more...
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Ladislaus Malinowski
Hes a race car driver who had a serious accident the previous year.more...
About the author
Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie, Lady Mallowan, DBE (née Miller) was an English writer known for her 66 detective novels and 14 short story collections, particularly those revolving around fictional detectives Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple. She also wrote the world's longest-running play, the murder mystery The Mousetrap, which has been performed in the West End of London since 1952. A writer during the "Golden Age of Detective Fiction", Christie has been called the "Queen of Crime". She also wrote six novels under the pseudonym Mary Westmacott. In 1971, she was made a Dame (DBE) by Queen Elizabeth II for her contributions to literature. Guinness World Records lists Christie as the best-selling fiction writer of all time, her novels having sold more than two billion copies.
This best-selling author of all time wrote 66 crime novels and story collections, fourteen plays, and six novels under a pseudonym in romance. Her books sold more than a billion copies in the English language and a billion in translation. According to Index Translationum, people translated her works into 103 languages at least, the most for an individual author. Of the most enduring figures in crime literature, she created Hercule Poirot and Miss Jane Marple. She atuhored The Mousetrap, the longest-running play in the history of modern theater.
Associated Names:
Agata Christie
Agata Kristi
Агата Кристи (Russian)
Агата Крісті (Ukrainian)
Αγκάθα Κρίστι (Greek)
アガサ クリスティ (Japanese)
阿嘉莎·克莉絲蒂 (Chinese)
