Mr Mutti

Mr Mutti is a non-canonical character created for ITV's 2007 adaptation of the novel At Bertram's Hotel. He is a well-known German hat maker and owner of the firm "Mutti's of Hanover". At the beginning of the show he arrives and checks in as a guest at Bertram's Hotel at around the same time as Miss Marple.

Shortly after his arrival at the hotel, Mutti collapsed as if he had suffered a great shock. Miss Marple, looking on, thought he had just spotted Bess Sedgwick. But this created as a sense of mystery as there seemed no reason why he should get a shock from seeing her.

Only towards the end of the show is it revealed that what he had seen was not Bess but a Rembrandt painting that was behind her. This was a painting which had been looted from his family home in Germany by the Nazis during the war. When he saw this, he surmised that a high-ranking Nazi, now a fugitive, must be nearby. During the course of his stay, he photographed various people at the hotel. He showed these to an associate of his who confirmed that one guest, purportedly Canon Pennyfather, was in fact an ex-Nazi fugitive, Herman Koch, the "Butcher of Riga". Coming back from his meeting with his associate, Mutti denounced Koch in the hotel lobby. In the lobby was Ladislaus Malinowski, who in this adaptation is a Nazi hunter also on the trail of Koch. Hearing Mutti's denouncement, Malinowski immediately pulled out a pistol and apprehended Koch and held him captive until the Inspector Larry Bird took over. Mutti told Bird that Koch had murdered his family and had looted two paintings from his home, a Rembrandt and a Vermeer. These paintings are subsequently recovered from the hotel.

It is not clear if Mutti was a full-time Nazi hunter like Malinowski or he got involved specifically because he recognised his family art treasures in the hotel. It is however certain that they were conferring with each other since Malinowski was ready when Mutti denounced Koch.

Mutti is portrayed by Danny Webb.