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Tucked away in a Mayfair cul-de-sac, Bertram's Hotel is an island of Edwardian England in the heart of swinging London. A place where dowager duchesses, country clergyman - and impressionable Americans - can still find glowing coal fires and cold grouse for breakfast.
It is the perfect setting for Miss Jane Marple. But a most inappropriate place for flamboyant Bess Sedgewick. And unthinkable as the centre of a web of crime. ...