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A review by obsidian_blue
At Bertram's Hotel by Agatha Christie
5.0
Two more books after this one and that is the end of reading anymore about Miss Jane Marple.
At Bertram's Hotel has Miss Marple taking a holiday at the previously named Bertram's in London. We have Miss Marple reminiscing about an old beau in her youth and her staying at the hotel with her family. We also have Miss Marple referring to events in other novels such as A Caribbean Mystery which keeps the events in that novel fresh in readers minds.
While staying at Bertram's Miss Marple overhears a conversation between Bess Sedgwick (an adventuress) and a member of the staff at Bertram's and starts to take note of other guests such as Elvira Blake (a 20 year old heiress) and Canon Pennyfather.
At first things in the story were rather muddled to me until we have Miss Marple becoming involved after Canon Pennyfather goes missing. Pretty soon a case is afoot and readers along with Miss Marple will start to question why Bertram's always seems so perfect.
When a commissionaire at Bertram's is accidentally shot we finally start to get more pieces to what is going on at Bertram's. Everything in the end ties together and makes sense, however, I have to admit that for a while there I was totally lost at what exactly was going on. What was great to me though is that we have Miss Marple's sense of justice and what is right prevailing in the end and though we don't get a satisfactory ending with certain individual(s) I like to think that they did pay in the end.
At Bertram's Hotel has Miss Marple taking a holiday at the previously named Bertram's in London. We have Miss Marple reminiscing about an old beau in her youth and her staying at the hotel with her family. We also have Miss Marple referring to events in other novels such as A Caribbean Mystery which keeps the events in that novel fresh in readers minds.
While staying at Bertram's Miss Marple overhears a conversation between Bess Sedgwick (an adventuress) and a member of the staff at Bertram's and starts to take note of other guests such as Elvira Blake (a 20 year old heiress) and Canon Pennyfather.
At first things in the story were rather muddled to me until we have Miss Marple becoming involved after Canon Pennyfather goes missing. Pretty soon a case is afoot and readers along with Miss Marple will start to question why Bertram's always seems so perfect.
When a commissionaire at Bertram's is accidentally shot we finally start to get more pieces to what is going on at Bertram's. Everything in the end ties together and makes sense, however, I have to admit that for a while there I was totally lost at what exactly was going on. What was great to me though is that we have Miss Marple's sense of justice and what is right prevailing in the end and though we don't get a satisfactory ending with certain individual(s) I like to think that they did pay in the end.