She works a scheme with her friend Bridget to gain money to fly to Ireland for unspecified reasons.Ĭanon Pennyfather attempts to travel to Lucerne for a conference however, he leaves on the wrong day and misses the event. Lawyer Richard Egerton, one of her trustees, tells her about the great wealth awaiting her.
While taking tea with her friend Lady Selina Hazy, Miss Marple observes the other guests: famous adventuress Bess Sedgwick her daughter, Elvira Blake with Elvira's legal guardian Colonel Luscombe clergyman Canon Pennyfather and race car driver Ladislaus Malinowski.Įlvira seeks to learn the size of her inheritance and who gets it if she dies. Miss Marple takes a two-week holiday in London, at Bertram's Hotel, an establishment known for its scrupulously authentic recreation of the Edwardian era, with the addition of modern conveniences. The character Elvira Blake was drawn well, and the careful description of the way older people look in 1965 compared to earlier eras, showed that Christie's "sharp eye had not dimmed". A review in 1990 found the plot "creaky" but praised the "hotel atmosphere" which "is very well conveyed and used". Another reviewer called it "an ingenious mystery" reliant on Christie's skillful writing style. Reviews at the time of publication considered the denouement too far-fetched, but that it has "phenomenal zest and makes a reasonably snug read". It features the detective Miss Marple staying at an up-market hotel which serves as a front for a sophisticated gang of robbers. The UK edition retailed at sixteen shillings (16/-) and the US edition at $4.50. At Bertram's Hotel is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie and first published in the UK by the Collins Crime Club on 15 November 1965 and in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company the following year.
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