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At Bertram's Hotel is a 1965 detective novel by Agatha Christie featuring Miss Marple. During a stay at an apparently traditional London hotel, Marple notices that its carefully preserved Edwardian atmosphere seems unusually perfect, while police investigate a series of crimes and the disappearance of a clergyman. The novel contrasts nostalgia and cultivated respectability with modern, organized criminal activity concealed behind the hotel's genteel routines.
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Who wrote At Bertram's Hotel?
At Bertram's Hotel is a detective novel by Agatha Christie. It was published in 1965 and features Miss Marple.
Where is At Bertram's Hotel set?
The story is set mainly in an apparently traditional London hotel. Miss Marple notices that its carefully preserved Edwardian atmosphere seems too perfect.
What mystery does Miss Marple investigate in At Bertram's Hotel?
The police investigate a series of crimes connected with the hotel and its guests. Miss Marple uses her knowledge of human behavior to question the hotel's polished image.
Is At Bertram's Hotel a typical Miss Marple village mystery?
No, the setting is a fashionable London hotel rather than St Mary Mead. The contrast between the hotel's nostalgic surface and the crimes gives the novel its distinctive tension.
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