Cause And Effect Of At Bertram's Hotel By Agatha Christie
In the excerpt from “At Bertram’s Hotel” by Agatha Christie, the characters use cause and effect to make their argument about who killed Michael Gorman by starting with a why, and and ending with the outcome. The presumed detectives state that the suspect felt that “the money wouldn’t come to her because, though she was his daughter, she wasn’t legitimate.” Because the daughter was had out of wedlock, she felt that she would be unable to inherit her father's fortune, and to that effect she killed the only person who could prove this fact. Two clear series of cause and effect happen in this short sentence. Firstly, the daughter starts thinking that she is in danger of losing her inheritance, so she kills the person who puts her inheritance