At Bertram's Hotel

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At Bertram's Hotel (published in 1965) is a detective fiction novel by Agatha Christie featuring the detective Miss Marple.

1 Plot summary
2 Trivia
3 Characters
4 Film, TV or theatrical adaptations

[edit] Plot summary

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When Jane Marple comes up from the country for a holiday in London, she finds what she's looking for at Bertram's Hotel: a restored London hotel on Pond Street with traditional decor, impeccable service and an unmistakable atmosphere of danger behind the highly polished veneer. But what she doesn't realize is that a number of the people in the entrance hall alone are hiding secrets, all of which are about to become part of a violent chain of events set in motion when an absent-minded guest, Canon Pennyfather, makes his way to the airport on the wrong day.

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[edit] Trivia

Bertram's Hotel is inspired by Brown's Hotel, in London, where Agatha Christie often stayed when visiting London.

[edit] Characters

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Jane Marple
Mr Humfries - the manager of Bertram's Hotel
Miss Gorringe - Mr Humfries' assistant
Rose Sheldon - a chambermaid employed at Bertram's Hotel
Lady Selina Hazy
The Honourable Elvira Blake
Lady Bess Sedgwick - Elvira's mother
Colonel Derek Luscombe - Elvira's guardian
Michael "Micky" Gorman - Lady Sedgwick's husband and commissionarie at Bertram's Hotel
Robert and Wilhelm Hoffman - the owners of Bertram's Hotel
Chief-Inspector Fred "Father" Davy
Inspector Campbell
Sergeant Wadell
Canon Pennyfather
Mrs McCrae - Canon Pennyfather's housekeeper
Archdeacon Simmons - Canon Pennyfather's friend and houseguest

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[edit] Film, TV or theatrical adaptations

A 1987 adaptation was made by the BBC. Produced again in 2006 with Geraldine McEwan as part of the third series of Marple.

Agatha Christie
Detectives: Hercule Poirot • Miss Marple • Tommy and Tuppence • Ariadne Oliver • Arthur Hastings • Superintendent Battle • Chief Inspector Japp • Parker Pyne
Novels: The Mysterious Affair at Styles • The Secret Adversary • Murder on the Links • The Man in the Brown Suit • The Secret of Chimneys • The Murder of Roger Ackroyd • The Big Four • The Mystery of the Blue Train • The Seven Dials Mystery • The Murder at the Vicarage • The Sittaford Mystery • Peril at End House • Lord Edgware Dies • Murder on the Orient Express • Three Act Tragedy • Why Didn't They Ask Evans? • Death in the Clouds • The A.B.C. Murders • Murder in Mesopotamia • Cards on the Table • Death on the Nile • Dumb Witness • Appointment with Death • And Then There Were None • Murder is Easy • Hercule Poirot's Christmas • Sad Cypress • Evil Under the Sun • N or M? • One, Two, Buckle My Shoe • The Body in the Library • Five Little Pigs • The Moving Finger • Towards Zero • Sparkling Cyanide • Death Comes as the End • The Hollow • Taken at the Flood • Crooked House • A Murder is Announced • They Came to Baghdad • Mrs McGinty's Dead • They Do It with Mirrors • A Pocket Full of Rye • After the Funeral • Hickory Dickory Dock • Destination Unknown • Dead Man's Folly • 4.50 From Paddington • Ordeal by Innocence • Cat Among the Pigeons • The Pale Horse • The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side • The Clocks • A Caribbean Mystery • At Bertram's Hotel • Third Girl • Endless Night • By the Pricking of My Thumbs • Hallowe'en Party • Passenger to Frankfurt • Nemesis • Elephants Can Remember • Postern of Fate • Curtain • Sleeping Murder
As Mary Westmacott: Giant's Bread • Unfinished Portrait • Absent in the Spring • The Rose and the Yew Tree • A Daughter's a Daughter • The Burden
Short story collections: Poirot Investigates • Partners in Crime • The Mysterious Mr. Quin • The Hound of Death • The Thirteen Problems • Parker Pyne Investigates • The Listerdale Mystery • Murder in the Mews • The Regatta Mystery • The Labours of Hercules • Poirot's Early Cases • The Harlequin Tea Set
Plays: Akhnaton • The Mousetrap • Witness for the Prosecution • Verdict • Rule of Three • Fiddlers Three

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