AT BERTRAMS HOTEL [Paperback]

Christie (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 2, 1983

Miss Jane Marple is staying at London's very expensive Bertram's Hotel when someone disreputable checks in-and tarnishes the bastion of tradition with new blood.

--This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

Editorial Reviews

Review

“Miss Christie’s pearly talent... shimmers steadily in this tale.”
—New Yorker --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

About the Author

Agatha Christie is the most widely published author of all time and in any language, outsold only by the Bible and Shakespeare. Her books have sold over a billion copies in English and another billion in one hundred foreign countries. She is the author of eighty novels and short-story collections, nineteen plays, and six novels under the name Mary Westmacott. She died in 1976.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 143 pages
• Publisher: Pocket (October 2, 1983)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 067149452X
• ISBN-13: 978-2830208627
• Shipping Weight: 4.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (45 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #10,072,041 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Agatha Christie was born in 1890 and created the detective Hercule Poirot in her debut novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles (1920). She achieved wide popularity with The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (1926) and produced a total of eighty novels and short-story collections over six decades.

Customer Reviews

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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Ok, but not one of my Marple favorites., December 5, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: At Bertram's Hotel (A Miss Marple Mystery) (Paperback)

Miss Marple goes on vacation to stay at Bertram's Hotel. If you were thinking she was going to have some kind of adventure like she did in _A Caribbean Mystery_ or _Nemesis_ while she was on vacation, think again. If you enjoy Miss Marple because she comes up with these wacky village parallels, you are going to be disappointed. There aren't many here. A large part of the detecting is done my Chief Inspector Davy. Miss Marple is merely a side character in this one -- she really isn't super involved except when Davy talks to her during his investigations. She is more a "witness" than a sleuth.

Granted, by this point she is rather old, so at least Christie keeps her doing things within her capabilities!

The description of the hotel are great, and the premise of the plot had some nice possibilities but I don't think this was as well mapped out as some of the other Agatha Christie mysteries. If you are a long time reader, you are going to guess whodunit fairly quickly.

Overall, it's ok, but not one of the best. The Miss Marple short stories (ex: Thirteen Problems) are better.

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Miss Marple and mystery, March 29, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: At Bertram's Hotel (A Miss Marple Mystery) (Paperback)

One of the best of Agatha Christie's later mysteries. Miss Marple has found the perfect spot to stay for her vacation. Nothing ever seems to change at Bertram's Hotel, everything is just as it was before the war. But is this all this charming gentility merely a facade for something far more dangerous?

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars More Like A Movie, September 6, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: At Bertram's Hotel (Mass Market Paperback)

This novel by the ever wonderful Agatha Christie is very exact and detailed. It had a twisted plot and suspicious characters. But! It was also from several people's point of view. The scene kept changing so you had to say "Okay, who is seeing this and what are they most likely to think". In other titles by Christie the story is from one point of view. The entire story is based around one person's story and mode of thinking. That is why I give Bertram's four and not five stars.