At Bertram's Hotel (Miss Marple) Review

Average Reviews:

(More customer reviews)This novel takes place at Bertram's Hotel (hence the title!) but it lacks something that the other Miss Marple novels have: the rural setting! Miss Marple isn't the same in the city, and she barely appears in the novel. I'd stay with THE MIRROR CRACK'D as my all-time Miss Marple favorite.

Click Here to see more reviews about: At Bertram's Hotel (Miss Marple)

An old-fashioned London Hotel is not quite as reputable as it makes out!When Miss Marple comes up from the country for a holiday in London, she finds what she's looking for at Bertram's Hotel: traditional decor, impeccable service and an unmistakable atmosphere of danger behind the highly polished veneer.Yet, not even Miss Marple can foresee the violent chain of events set in motion when an eccentric guest makes his way to the airport on the wrong day!

Click here for more information about At Bertram's Hotel (Miss Marple)

Hotel Paradise (Emma Graham Mysteries) Review

Average Reviews:

(More customer reviews)I must disagree with the reader who skewers this book so dreadfully (regarding a 12 year-old's vocabulary). Perhaps one of the reasons I responded so viscerally to Grimes' book is that I was a 12 year-old exactly like this narrator--bookish and full of Victorian words better written than pronounced. In "Hotel Paradise," Grimes creates a book that completely pulled me in and when it ended, I was saddened because then I had to give up the narrator's world, one I happily entered for a period of hours. I will collect Martha Grimes' books happily now (this was my first one). I most heartily recommend this book to anyone who likes books for the way they are written, and to those who can use their own imaginations when they read--after all, isn't that part of the fun of reading fiction? Grimes is no dime-store novel simpleton. Her words leap off of the page and the phrases in "Hotel Paradise" are almost edible. Buy this book in hardcover and loan it to a friend when you are finished.

Click Here to see more reviews about: Hotel Paradise (Emma Graham Mysteries)

Click here for more information about Hotel Paradise (Emma Graham Mysteries)