![]() Lady Sedgwick has concealed the fact that she is Elvira's mother, considering herself unsuitable, and both women are lovers of the racing-car driver Ladislaus Malinowski, whose car resembles one seen at the train robbery. 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. 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. ![]() ![]() 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. At Bertram's Hotel is a 1965 novel by Agatha Christie, featuring Miss Marple. ![]()
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