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With Miss Marple's help Davy discovers the links between Bess
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Hotel. Morgan cites correspondence between
Christie and her agent Edmund Cork in which they decided to change the hotel proprietor's name and the street in which Bertram's was located in order to obscure the connection with Fleming's. The
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Sedgwick; her daughter, Elvira Blake; Elvira's
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sitting on a chair in his hotel room just before he was knocked unconscious. The gang had expected Canon Pennyfather to be in Lucerne and had sent a double to replace him and take part in the train robbery.
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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 lodgers at the hotel is Christie's popular character
435:(12 December 1965) that "A C is seldom at her best when she goes thrillerish on you. This one is a bit wild and far-fetched, but it's got plenty of that phenomenal zest and makes a reasonably snug read."
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The Honourable Elvira Blake: beautiful young woman with fashionably long, straight flaxen hair, a guest at the hotel who has returned to England after attending finishing school in Italy.
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for a conference, but he leaves on the wrong day and misses the event. Upon his return to Bertram's late at night he disturbs intruders in his bedroom. Some hours later the
423:] the denouement is really too far-fetched. But does the plot matter so much with Mrs Christie? What does matter is that one just can't put any book of hers down."
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284:Mr Humfries: manager of Bertram's Hotel.
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1714:Why Didn't They Ask Evans?
1679:The Murder at the Vicarage
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2188:Parker Pyne Investigates
1805:One, Two, Buckle My Shoe
1791:And Then There Were None
1372:Agatha Christie's Marple
756:Sanders, Dennis (1989).
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2209:The Labours of Hercules
2119:A Daughter's a Daughter
1910:They Do It with Mirrors
1826:The Body in the Library
1672:The Seven Dials Mystery
1630:The Murder on the Links
1548:Captain Arthur Hastings
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1100:The Body in the Library
2318:Appointment with Death
2181:The Listerdale Mystery
2160:The Mysterious Mr Quin
2050:Elephants Can Remember
2036:Passenger to Frankfurt
1854:Death Comes as the End
1770:Appointment with Death
1644:The Secret of Chimneys
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2279:The Harlequin Tea Set
2167:The Thirteen Problems
1966:Cat Among the Pigeons
1889:A Murder Is Announced
1742:Murder in Mesopotamia
1686:The Sittaford Mystery
1528:Superintendent Battle
1201:The Thirteen Problems
1116:A Murder Is Announced
1046:Characters and places
355:Cat Among the Pigeons
211:, a town in Ireland.
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2697:Novels set in hotels
2374:The Unexpected Guest
2258:Poirot's Early Cases
2105:Absent in the Spring
1952:4.50 from Paddington
1938:Hickory Dickory Dock
1924:A Pocket Full of Rye
1896:They Came to Baghdad
1623:The Secret Adversary
1543:Sir Henry Clithering
1296:The Alphabet Murders
1272:Murder at the Gallop
1140:4.50 from Paddington
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411:Anthony Berkeley Cox
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2202:The Regatta Mystery
2146:Poirot Investigates
2098:Unfinished Portrait
1994:A Caribbean Mystery
1959:Ordeal by Innocence
1931:Destination Unknown
1728:Death in the Clouds
1339:Murder with Mirrors
1331:A Caribbean Mystery
1209:The Regatta Mystery
1156:A Caribbean Mystery
852:Richardson, Maurice
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2381:Go Back for Murder
2325:Murder on the Nile
2195:Murder in the Mews
2174:The Hound of Death
2001:At Bertram's Hotel
1903:Mrs McGinty's Dead
1875:Taken at the Flood
1812:Evil Under the Sun
1749:Cards on the Table
1735:The A.B.C. Murders
1693:Peril at End House
1304:The Mirror Crack'd
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