“At Bertram’s Hotel” is one of the latest works by Agatha Christie and, like some of her other late works, tends to be less exciting, but more contemplative. Most of the book is dedicated to the description of Bertram’s Hotel, which imitates old England in the second half of the twentieth century to cater to the desires of the older folk to see the world as if it hadn’t changed.
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This novel by the Queen of the genre is a bit unusual – not in style, but in the choice of the leading characters. We’ll see neither Hercule Poirot nor Miss Marple here – on the contrary, the case will be investigated by two young people without any previous experience in solving mysteries.
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