![]() ![]() It doesn’t require astonishing amounts of money to have these things and old furniture. ![]() ![]() Granted, these things would have been more expensive in England 1965 than in America in 2022 (which I’m used to), but food rationing had been over for 10 years by then. ![]() It’s not that expensive to have a dozen varieties of tea, to make real muffins with lots of butter, and to have real seed cake. I suppose that there is a bit of mystery about what the deal is with Bertram’s Hotel, but it seems plausible that it’s simply an expensive hotel with an old-timey gimmic. In fact, we don’t even get a murder until a few chapters from the end, and there isn’t much of a mystery in the story until the murder comes along. Miss Marple, as is often the case, does not feature heavily in the story, but when she does it’s as a witness, rather than as a detective. (Like with the final Poirot novel, Curtain, Agatha Christie had written the final Miss Marple novel, Sleeping Murder, in the 1940s and put it in a safe with her lawyers to be published after her death.) It is a strange story, more a light thriller about a police detective who on the trail of an organized crime syndicate than a mystery. Published in 1965, At Bertram’s Hotel was the second-to-last Miss Marple novel written, though the third-from-last published. ![]()
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