She’s a lady with a Victorian mindset, but she has had to adapt and survive through two world wars and the progress of the modern age. It was interested to see how an older lady like Miss Marple is adjusting to the modern world, since this book was published in the 1960s. And of course, the intrepid police inspector who suspects that Bertram’s Hotel might be hiding something criminal. There’s the doddering old clergyman who can’t remember where he is going. There’s a fashionable woman who lives for the adrenaline of dangerous exploits. There’s an international race car driver with a bad reputation. There’s a teen girl who has never met her real mother. However, all the characters are very interesting and diverse. I wish she were a more prominent part of the plot, and I wish she took more action. She’s only in a few scenes, and she does very little to actually solve the mystery, but she does provide the final clue for the police to resolve their investigation. We follow a lot of different characters, but we don’t see Miss Marple very much. She begins to notice little ordinary things that aren’t quite right around the hotel, which become helpful to the police when they investigate the disappearance of an elderly clergyman. Miss Marple goes on a holiday to London and stays at the highly respectable Bertram’s Hotel.
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