From the hotel room Davy and Miss Marple witness everything: the chase and the subsequent crash. Yet, as she tries to flee in her car, she crashes and dies. Suddenly, she smashes the window with a telephone, jumps out of the window, and manages to reach the street. When she got confirmation, she got scared because she thought that if her mother’s marriage to her father was not valid, she could be illegitimate and might not have right to her inheritance, which she needed to secure Ladislaus’s love.Īfter these revelations, Bess admits to being the leader in the gang, and she also says that she killed Micky Gorman. That is why she went to Ireland because she wanted to find out the truth. What Bess also learns is that her daughter, Elvira, was also there. Miss Marple overheard the conversation because neither Bess nor Micky Gorman were aware that they weren’t alone as the chairs in the parlour were high-backed, so they hid the occupants. The only one she ever told about the marriage was Johnny Sedgwick, the only man she ever loved, but he never cared. Actually, Miss Marple overheard a conversation between Bess and Micky Gorman in which they mentioned that they married many years ago, but Bess never divorced, and that means she committed bigamy with the men that she next married. Bess Sedgwick is the ringleader of the criminal organisation.Īpart from that, Davy also explains why Micky Gorman was killed. It was fortunate that the man didn’t remember a thing. Then he was hit in the head and taken to the farm where he woke up. The plan went wrong with Canon Pennyfather, who returned to the hotel and found his doppelganger. Davy says that many of the guests staying there were impersonating real people like the Cabots, an American couple, who have been arrested in Calais as they tried to smuggled the money from the train robbery. Inspector Davy explains that the hotel is a front for a criminal syndicate, and as a matter of fact, the hotel is the headquarters. So it wasn’t Canon Pennyfather.ĭavy then asks Miss Marple to accompany him to see Bess Sedgwick in her room. The man who she spotted had another gait and his shoulders hunched in a different way. So when she does so, on opening the door she realises that it wasn’t the canon who she saw. Inspector Davy asks the two of them to take part in a little experiment, and Miss Marple has to do the same as she did when she saw the canon leave the hotel that night. Canon Pennyfather also arrives at the hotel. Miss Marple returns to Bertram’s Hotel at the request of Inspector Davy. This is not the best Agatha Christie mystery, but I enjoyed it all the same.

Bertram's hotel