Miss Marple · Book 11
At Bertram's Hotel
- Published
- 1 January 1965
- Pages
- 248
- ISBN-13
- 9780553350630
- Type
- novel
About this book
At Bertram's Hotel (1965, 248 pages), the tenth novel, sends Marple to a grand London hotel rather than her usual village setting, following A Caribbean Mystery's own departure from St Mary Mead the year before.
Its place in Miss Marple
At Bertram's Hotel is book 11 in the Miss Marple series. It follows A Caribbean Mystery. It is followed by Nemesis. See the full Miss Marple reading order.
Jane Marple is an elderly, unmarried amateur detective living in the small English village of St Mary Mead, and Agatha Christie's quiet rebuttal to the idea that a detective needs to be dashing, professional, or even taken seriously. Marple solves murders by pattern-matching them against a lifetime of village gossip and human folly — she has, she insists, seen every possible motive for murder already play out over a church fete or a dispute about the vicar's roses. Christie wrote twelve Marple novels between 1930…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780553350630