At Bertram's Hotel
- 248
- Pages
- about 4.5 h
- Reading time
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Our view
A smart hotel, a disappearance and a watchful Miss Marple make “At Bertram’s Hotel” agreeable company. The detecting falls to Chief Inspector Fred Davy; Miss Marple, whose name the book was sold under, turns up in a few chapters and only looks on. Readers call it easy and entertaining; some find the solution rushed, others the puzzle itself unsatisfying.
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About the book
At Bertram's Hotel is a mystery novel by Agatha Christie, first published in the United Kingdom by the Collins Crime Club on 15 November 1965 and in the United States by Dodd, Mead and Company in 1966. The novel follows Chief Inspector Fred Davy as he investigates an upmarket hotel that is at the centre of a mysterious disappearance. Among the guests at the hotel is Christie's popular character Miss Marple; At Bertram's Hotel was marketed as a Miss Marple novel, despite the fact that Marple only appears in a few chapters and has a completely passive role in the investigation.
Reading order · Miss Marple
Full order & progress →- The Murder at the VicarageStart here
7.87.8 / 10 - The Body in the Library
7.57.5 / 10 - The Moving Finger
7.57.5 / 10 - A Murder Is Announced
7.87.8 / 10 - They Do It with Mirrors
7.57.5 / 10 - A Pocket Full of Rye
7.77.7 / 10 - 4.50 from Paddington
7.67.6 / 10 - The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side
7.77.7 / 10 - A Caribbean Mystery
7.47.4 / 10 - At Bertram's HotelThis book
7.37.3 / 10 - Nemesis
7.67.6 / 10 - Sleeping Murder
7.67.6 / 10
Where the score comes from
The sources average 6.9 across 121 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 45% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Crime & mystery average of 7.6. That is how 7.3 comes out.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Library | 8.1 | 15 | 12% |
| Hardcover | 6.7 | 106 | 88% |
Frequently asked
How long is At Bertram's Hotel?
It has 248 pages — shorter than 91% of the ranked books in Crime & mystery.
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