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Summary: Applause!
Review: At Bertram's Hotel is a most delightful mystery. It sucks you in, and won't let you go (as all Agatha Christie's books tend to do!). The plot, which is centered around Bertram's Hotel, is spooky, mysterious, and lavishly well written.
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Summary: My first Miss Marple is...
Review: At Bertram's Hotel. Miss Marple is merely a busy body until the actions begins to occur over 3/4ths of the way through the novel. At this point her skills become much more alive. She becomes an appreciated participant in the investigation. The results are not what one first thought.
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Summary: Miss Marple takes a trip down memory lane and.....
Review: ends up involved in a modern day murder.Jane Marple's nephew has given her a treat, a vacation. Miss Marple was delighted with the idea but requested a trip to London instead of the seaside resorts he had mentioned. Specifically she wanted to stay at Bertram's Hotel, a place she had stayed several times as a young girl. Her family was surprised that the establishment was still in business and cautioned her that it could not possibly be as she remembered it but arrangements were made and soon she was settling in. To her delight Bertram's had not changed a bit. She also met an old friend that was staying there and, while expressing her surprise at this lack of change, realized that Bertram's should have changed. Over the next few days as she enjoyed her vacation Miss Marple puzzled over this lack of change and other odd things about Bertram's. Odd things like how Bertram's could possibly find and keep such good help, much less pay them! And wasn't it interesting the way she and her friend were seeing so many people they knew, or thought they knew. Being Jane Marple she also could not help but take an interest in those around her. Particularly she noticed the notorious Bess Sedgwick and the Hon. Elvira Blake and the men that seemed to be following them. Murder of course invades the sancitity of Bertram's (this is a Christie after all). In the course of their investigations the police also come to realize that Bertram's is too good to be true and with Miss Marple's aid sort out the tangle that ties Bertram's to an international crime ring and teenage romances - both past and present. This is one of the 'cozy' mysteries for which Christie is famous.
The plot centers on Bertram's, an Edwardian hotel isolated in modern (1965) London. Secrets, long hidden, come to light due to unlikely coincidences. As always in a Christie, all the clues are fairly laid out for the reader to follow and of course, there is a surprise twist at the end.
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Summary: Miss Marple takes a trip down memory lane and.....
Review: ends up involved in a modern day murder. Jane Marple's nephew has given her a treat, a vacation. Miss Marple was delighted with the idea but requested a trip to London instead of the seaside resorts he had mentioned. Specifically she wanted to stay at Bertram's Hotel, a place she had stayed several times as a young girl. Her family was surprised that the establishment was still in business and cautioned her that it could not possibly be as she remembered it but arrangements were made and soon she was settling in. To her delight Bertram's had not changed a bit. She also met an old friend that was staying there and, while expressing her surprise at this lack of change, realized that Bertram's should have changed. Over the next few days as she enjoyed her vacation Miss Marple puzzled over this lack of change and other odd things about Bertram's. Odd things like how Bertram's could possibly find and keep such good help, much less pay them! And wasn't it interesting the way she and her friend were seeing so many people they knew, or thought they knew. Being Jane Marple she also could not help but take an interest in those around her. Particularly she noticed the notorious Bess Sedgwick and the Hon. Elvira Blake and the men that seemed to be following them. Murder of course invades the sancitity of Bertram's (this is a Christie after all). In the course of their investigations the police also come to realize that Bertram's is too good to be true and with Miss Marple's aid sort out the tangle that ties Bertram's to an international crime ring and teenage romances - both past and present. This is one of the 'cozy' mysteries for which Christie is famous.
The plot centers on Bertram's, an Edwardian hotel isolated in modern (1965) London. Secrets, long hidden, come to light due to unlikely coincidences. As always in a Christie, all the clues are fairly laid out for the reader to follow and of course, there is a surprise twist at the end.
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Summary: Marple tackles hard crime
Review: First, let me correct a misaprehension. This is NOT the first Miss Marple book. I don't understand where that notion came from, but it isn't right. The first Miss Marple book written by Ms Christie was "Murder at The Vicarage", and the second was "The Body in the Library". I believe this one was nearer the end, not the beginning, or Marple's sleuthing career. This is certainly one of my faourite Marple books (second only to "A Caribbean Mystery") The plot is great, a somewhat change of style for what Christie would normally pit Marple's wits against, yet it is refreshing and works well. The climax is brilliant. The plot is complex, involving, intriguing, exciting, and the solution believeable, and also a slight surprise. Strong characterisation, and an excellent and somewhat refreshing plot, make this one of the best Miss Marple books, and also one of Christie's best novels. (altough there are so many under that category, calling a book "one of her best" has become slightly ambiguous)
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Summary: Bertram's is the best!
Review: I am 11 and I loved this book! I read it in 1 day and I am the slowest reader in the world! The end is a complete suprise and it kept me guessing the entire way through. Miss Marple does and excellent job on finding outthe murder! This is a perfect book!!!
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Summary: I am never visiting this hotel again.
Review: I am shocked, but I must admit, that I have come across an Agatha Christie that I did not enjoy at all. It is dull, confusing, and the ending is poor, but it was impossible to figure out the ending. If you are going to read Agatha Chrisie's books, I reccomend that you start with Sleeping Murder (THE BEST) or And Then There Were None/ Ten Little Indians (THE SECOND BEST). Save this one till the end.
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Summary: Predictable
Review: I have read many of Agatha Christie's books and although it isn't my favorite it isn't my least favorite. I figured it out pretty early and I'm certainly no genius!
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Summary: This is one of the most charming of the Miss Marple stories.
Review: I highly recommend this book to Agatha Christie fans of Miss Marple stories. It has a particular charm involving an elegant old-style hotel and its seem-to-be prominent guests. It has been a re-read for me for years.
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Summary: Miss Marple Ages
Review: In a nod to the lifestyle in her earlier books, Miss Marple takes at a vacation at a hotel that perfectly reproduces pre-war life. Too good to be true? The aging detective's still sharp eyes help the police to sort this complex mystery. Perhaps not the strongest Miss Marple, but with many of the elements that made her a great character.
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