Her mother, Bess Sedgwick, had abandoned her as a toddler to become a famous star and adventurer, and has not kept in touch. Miss Marple is intrigued by the other guests in the tearoom, especially a famous adventuress, Bess Sedgwick a young woman, Elvira Blake, and her guardian Colonel Luscombe and a forgetful clergyman, Canon Pennyfather.Įlvira's late father left her a lot of money, but it's all held in trust until she, not yet 20, turns 21. Lady Hazy says she often thinks she recognizes people in the hotel but they turn out to be strangers.
Miss Marple first sees Lady Selina Hazy, a childhood friend. The hotel is famous for fully preserving its Edwardian atmosphere even into the 1960s, from the proper staff to the elderly guests who frequent the tearoom. Galley Beggar Press, based in Norwich, is owed £7,000, and its co-founder Sam Jordison said Bertrams has "quite a lot of stock of ours - we have printed the books, but don't know if we can get hold of them".Miss Marple takes a holiday at Bertram's Hotel in London, to re-live her happy memories of staying there during her youth. Īs of June 2020 many of the suppliers remain unpaid. It was sold by Connect Group in 2018 and entered administration again on 19 June 2020. Woolworths Group entered into administration itself in January 2009.īertrams entered administration on 20 March 2009 and sold on the same day by Ernst & Young in a "pre-pack" deal to Smiths News (now Connect Group) for £8,611,622. The retail business of Woolworths Group and its distribution firm Entertainment UK entered administration in November 2008, although Bertrams did not as it operated as a separate division within the group.
The acquisition was reviewed by the Competition Commission. It had and still does have independent booksellers as its core customers.īertrams was bought by Woolworths Group in 2007. The company was founded in 1971 by Elsie Bertram and her son Kip, based on a business which Elsie had been running since 1965 in a chicken shed in the garden of her Norwich home. The group includes Bertram Books, Bertram Publisher Services and Bertram Library Services. It has 200,000 titles available for same-day despatch and has access to over 13 million books in print. Bertrams was the second largest United Kingdom based wholesaler of books, owned since 2018 by Aurelius Investments.
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