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Author | Agatha Christie |
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Cover artist | Brian Russell[1] |
Language | English |
Genre | Crime novel |
Publisher | Collins Crime Club |
Publication date | 15 November 1965 |
Publication place | United Kingdom |
Media type | Print (hardback & paperback) |
Pages | 256 (first edition, hardcover) |
Preceded by | Star Over Bethlehem and other stories |
Followed by | Third Girl |
At Bertram's Hotel is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie, first published in the United Kingdom by the Collins Crime Club on 15 November 1965[2] and in the United States by Dodd, Mead and Company in 1966.[3][4] The novel follows Chief Inspector Fred Davy as he investigates an upmarket hotel that is at the centre of a mysterious disappearance. Among the lodgers 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.
At Bertram's Hotel met with mostly positive reviews. Reviewers criticized the reliance of far-fetched coincidences, but found that Christie's gripping writing style makes the book enjoyable in spite of any weaknesses in the plot.