At Bertram's Hotel by Christie, Agatha [Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa, Lady Mallowan (1890-1976) - 1965

256 pages. Small octavo (7 1/2" x 5 1/4") bound in original publisher's red cloth with black lettering to spine in original jacket. First British edition. At Bertram's Hotel is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie and first published in the UK by the Collins Crime Club on 15 November 1965 and in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company the following year. Jane Marple, the elderly amateur sleuth, takes a holiday at London's Bertram's Hotel, a place of which she has fond memories from her youth. The establishment has retained a mixed Edwardian and Victorian atmosphere, from its prim staff to its elderly patrons. In its tearoom Miss Marple encounters a wartime friend, Lady Selina Hazy, who reveals that she frequently thinks that she recognizes people in the hotel only for them to turn out to be complete strangers. Miss Marple is intrigued by her fellow guests, who include the famous adventuress Bess Sedgwick, 17-year-old Elvira Blake and her legal guardian Colonel Luscombe, and a forgetful clergyman, Canon Pennyfather. Condition: Jacket with edge war, soiled, spine ends chipped hinges rubbed else a better than very good copy in like jacket.