At Bertram's Hotel

Miss Marple spends two weeks in London at Bertram's, a hotel that seems frozen in the Edwardian era. Staying there are the adventurer Bess Sedgwick, Elvira Blake, the daughter she walked away from, and the absent-minded Canon Pennyfather, who suddenly vanishes. That same night, the Irish Mail train is robbed, and witnesses swear the canon was there. With Chief Inspector Davy, Miss Marple finds out the hotel is a front for a gang that uses look-alikes of respectable guests to pull off heists. The doorman, Michael Gorman, Bess's ex-husband, is shot dead. Bess confesses to the robberies and the killing and dies in a car crash while fleeing. Miss Marple doesn't buy it: she thinks Elvira pulled the trigger.

1. ChangeNazis at the hotel

   On ITV (2007), the book's gang becomes a scheme to hide Nazi war criminals under stolen identities, paid for with stolen art.

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2. ChangeNo Inspector Davy

   Chief Inspector Davy is gone. In his place comes Inspector Larry Bird, and a maid, Jane Cooper, becomes a sort of young Miss Marple.

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3. ChangeBess survives

   In the book, Bess dies in a car crash. On ITV, she tries to take the blame, is forced to back down, and mother and daughter make up.

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4. Behind the scenesWhich hotel?

   There are two bets on the model for Bertram's: Brown's Hotel, where Christie often stayed, and Flemings in Mayfair, according to her official biographer.

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