At Bertram's Hotel

When Jane Marple comes up from the country for a holiday in London, she finds what she's looking for at Bertram's Hotel: a restored London hotel on Pond Street with traditional decor, impeccable service and an unmistakable atmosphere of danger behind the highly polished veneer. But what she does not realize is that a number of the people in the entrance hall alone are hiding secrets, all of which are about to become part of a violent chain of events set in motion when an absent-minded guest, Canon Pennyfather, makes his way to the airport on the wrong day. He later returns to his hotel very late at night and upon his return to his room is knocked out. He then disappears for a time until he is located in a house, where he is being nursed back to health after supposedly suffering a car accident, quite a distance from Bertram's hotel. On the same night as that of his disappearance, someone looking like him is seen at a train robbery.