![]() And thanks to an encounter with an old friend named Lady Selina Hazy, Miss Marple also becomes aware of a family drama being played out inside Bertram's, between an adolescent girl of good family named Elvira Blake and her estranged mother, a famous adventuress and socialite named Bess, Lady Sedgwick. But it does not take Miss Marple long to realize that the hotel's lack of change seemed unusual, considering that most long-standing hotels tend to change over the years. Otherwise, the hotel's atmosphere, interior designs, the food and the style of the hotel's staff has not changed a whit. The plumbing and communication system may have been modernize. Her first reaction to Bertram's is sheer rapture, as she realizes that the hotel has retained its late Victorian/Edwardian atmosphere after many decades. "AT BERTRAM'S HOTEL" beings with Miss Jane Marple arriving in London to spend a holiday at Bertram's Hotel, a place she used to stay during her youth. ![]() When I first saw the television adaptation for it, I found myself wondering how the director and the screenwriter would handle it. ![]() It strikes me as one of the most unusual novels she has ever written. ![]() Agatha Christie's 1965 novel is a bit of a conundrum for me. ![]()
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