Miss Jane Marple is on vacation and loving every minute of her stay at London’s eminently expensive bestion of tradition，Bertram’s HoteI． But its impeccabIe old—WOrld reputation iS being tar nished--by new blood．For someone disreputable has Just checked in．And what’s now going on at Bertram’s Hotel iS a crime．
“I suspect that future scholars of the detective novel Will hold that its greatest practitioner．out renking even EIlery Queen and John Dickson Carr has been Agatha Christie...as she roundly demonstrates in At Bertram's Hotel．A joy to read from beginning to end”.---New York Times
“Miss Christie’s pearly talent shimmers steadily in this taIe．”---New Yorker