Bertie is an "affectionate" nickname for Edward VII, whom Irene met when he was still Prince of Wales. At at time when the telephone was almost unknown, 1882, Bertie was on the phone listening to Christine who was in the wings of a Gilbert and Sullivan rehearsal when she was murdered.

Irene was in the cast at the time and realizes Christine was hit on the head with a heavy bar. She rushes to the other end of the phone line and uses hypnotism on Bertie to help him remember what he heard and discover the murderer . We never find out the murderer's name as Irene reminisces after the turn of the century (probably around 1905) to Nell, but then there is more mystery to Irene than to the murder. Who else has she hypnotized and what else has she done besides discover a murderer?

Appears in Crime Time II.