Characters in At Bertram's Hotel

Chief Inspector Fred Davy

Shrewd and deceptively avuncular; his patient, unhurried manner conceals a sharp investigative mind, and he drives the inquiry.

Miss Jane Marple

Plays a smaller, more observational part than usual, watching and reflecting rather than leading the investigation.

Also in The Murder at the Vicarage, The Thirteen Problems, The Body in the Library, The Moving Finger, A Murder Is Announced, They Do It with Mirrors, A Pocket Full of Rye, 4:50 from Paddington, The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side, A Caribbean Mystery

Lady Bess Sedgwick

A much-married, danger-seeking woman whose past entanglements quietly link several other guests.

Elvira Blake

Outwardly demure but more wilful and self-directed than her guardians realise.

Canon Pennyfather

His scholarly forgetfulness makes his comings and goings strangely hard to account for.

Michael Gorman

A former soldier recently taken on, whose history is more tangled with the guests than his post suggests.

Ladislaus Malinowski

Reckless and attractive, an associate of Bess Sedgwick who also draws Elvira's attention.

Miss Gorringe

Embodies the hotel's old-world discretion, remembering every regular guest by name.

Mr Humfries

Smoothly attentive front-of-house presence who keeps the establishment's image immaculate.