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At Bertram's Hotel
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At Bertram's Hotel is a 1965 novel by Agatha Christie, featuring Miss Marple.Miss Marple is holidaying at the titular hotel, where she meets her old friend Lady Selina Hazy, and encounters a variety of other guests including the adventuress Bess Sedgwick, the young heiress Elvira Blake, her guardian Colonel Lunscombe, and the forgetful Canon Pennyfather. The latter is supposed to fly to Switzerland for a conference but misses his flight by a day, returns to the hotel, and is knocked unconscious, before waking up four days later outside of London near to a recent train robbery where witnesses say they saw him; Miss Marple also saw him leaving his room fully conscious several hours after he was knocked out. Meanwhile, Elvira's money is being held in trust until she comes of age, and she asks her guardians who would inherit if she died, and hints that she is planning to get married. When a murder takes place, Police Chief Inspector Fred "Father" Davy, already involved in the mystery, teams up with Miss Marple to uncover the various crimes…The novel has been adapted twice for television: firstly in 1987 as part of the BBC Miss Marple series starring Joan Hickson, and secondly as a 2007 episode of ITV's Marple. The latter made many large changes to the plot. | |
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After-Action Villain Analysis | |
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After-Action Villain Analysis: Subverted. After Bess Sedgwick crashes and dies, her confession and motivations are discussed, when Miss Marple quietly reveals that she falsely confessed to protect her daughter Elvira, the real murderer. | |
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Comic-Book Time: After having been originally presented as a subversion of the "Victorian Aunt" stereotype in her initial appearences, Miss Marple is described as having had a "Victorian Aunt" of her own in this novel of 1965. | |
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Scatterbrained Senior | |
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Scatterbrained Senior: The elderly and forgetful cleric Canon Pennyfather, who arrives one day late to the airport for his flight. | |
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Murder by Mistake | |
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Murder by Mistake: Micky Gorman is accidentally shot while defending the intended victim from an unknown assailant. Or so it seems; the so-called "intended victim", Elvira, was the actual assailant who deliberately killed Gorman. | |
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"Could Have Avoided This!" Plot | |
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"Could Have Avoided This!" Plot: If Elvira Blake had just talked to a probate lawyer about her father's will, she would have found out the murder was completely unnecessary. | |
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Badass Driver | |
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Badass Driver: Lady Sedgwick turns out to be one. She commits suicide by crashing her car after driving very fast and recklessly, but Father notes that her driving was actually magnificent, and that against the odds she avoided any other casualties or property damage. | |
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Heroic Sacrifice | |
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Heroic Sacrifice: Bess Sedgwick pulls one in order to cover for Elvira. | |
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Uncanny Valley | |
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Uncanny Valley: The titular hotel is this, full of the retired military officers and Grande Dames one would expect in a hotel that seems frozen in the past. It doesn't take Miss Marple long to realize that something's off about the place. She's not wrong; the place has been set up this way deliberately to serve as a front for a crime ring. | |
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Busman's Holiday | |
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Busman's Holiday: Jane Marple is roped into solving a murder while holidaying at the titular hotel. | |
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Sibling Triangle | |
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Sibling Triangle: Actually a parent-child triangle, as both Lady Sedgwick and her daughter Elvira have been lovers of racing-car driver Ladislaus Malinowski. | |
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All for Nothing | |
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All for Nothing: It turns out that Elvira's fears about her mother's marriage to Gorman depriving her of her inheritance by making her "illegitimate" were unfounded, and thus, unknown to her, there was nothing for her to gain from killing him. | |
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Oops! I Forgot I Was Married | |
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Oops! I Forgot I Was Married: Lady Sedgwick and Micky Gorman had married in Ireland, and he had told her that it was just a game and not a legal union, but in fact the marriage was genuine, making all four of her subsequent marriages unwittingly bigamous. | |
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Face of an Angel, Mind of a Demon | |
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Face of an Angel, Mind of a Demon: Miss Marple references this trope in regard to the murderer: | |
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The Unfettered | |
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The Unfettered: Lady Sedgwick, the adventuress. Discussed by Police Chief Inspector "Father" Davy. | |
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Action Girl | |
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Action Girl: Lady Sedgwick is an adventuress, and her action skills shine in the climax of the novel. | |
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False Confession | |
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False Confession: Bess Sedgwick makes one in order to protect the real killer, who is her daughter. | |
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All Girls Want Bad Boys | |
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All Girls Want Bad Boys: As usual for a Christie novel, it ends badly for everyone. Elvira loves Stanislaus, who loves... her money (and was her mother's intermittent lover). Recognizing that she wouldn't get Stanislaus without the money, and thinking she might be illegitimate, she carries out a completely unecessary murder. | |
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Bad Habits | |
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Bad Habits: Canon Pennyfather is incapacitated and impersonated as part of a robbery, for which he is to be the scapegoat. | |
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Climbing Climax | |
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Climbing Climax: Near the end of the story, Lady Sedgwick confesses to the murder and then flees by climbing the drainpipe to the roof of the building, managing to elude all of Father's men, before scaling down the far side, driving away recklessly in her car and crashing fatally. She did this deliberately, and the confession was a false one to protect her daughter. | |
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Unbuilt Trope | |
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Unbuilt Trope: Adaptations of Agatha Christie works since the 1970s have sometimes been criticised for romanticising and idealising the Genteel Interbellum Setting. One of the last Miss Marple novels, At Bertram's Hotel, written and set in the 1960s, depicts the "timeless" and old-world atmosphere of the titular London hotel as a front for a criminal conspiracy, and ends with Miss Marple deciding that one must accept that the world has changed and not try to live in the past. | |
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Love Makes You Evil | |
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Love Makes You Evil: Elvira Blake was desperately in love with Malinowski, but knew that he would only marry her for her money. She killed Gorman out of fear that because his marriage to her mother made her father's marriage bigamous, Elvira might have, due to being "illegitimate", lost her inheritance, and thus also lost Malinowski. As it turned out, this fear was baseless. | |
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