But it does not take Miss Marple long to realize that the hotel’s lack of change seemed unusual, considering that most long-standing hotels tend to change over the years. Otherwise, the hotel’s atmosphere, interior designs, the food and the style of the hotel’s staff has not changed a whit. The plumbing and communication system may have been modernized. Her first reaction to Bertram’s is sheer rapture, as she realizes that the hotel has retained its late Victorian/Edwardian atmosphere after many decades. “AT BERTRAM’S HOTEL” beings with Miss Jane Marple arriving in London to spend a holiday at Bertram’s Hotel, a place she used to stay during her youth. When I first saw the television adaptation for it, I found myself wondering how the director and the screenwriter would handle it. It strikes me as one of the most unusual novels she has ever written. Agatha Christie’s 1965 novel is a bit of a conundrum for me.
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