innkeeper

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Often have I recalled the scene in John Buchan’s spy thriller “The 39 Steps” when the protagonist, Richard Hannay, tells his true but unlikely story to an innkeeper.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 23, 2025

The introverted Ms. Grade acknowledged that she was a most unlikely innkeeper.

From New York Times • Mar. 17, 2024

“Perhaps Jack the boarder had seeded his own rumors,” the innkeeper observes.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 14, 2023

Audience members also got a glimpse of Olivia Colman as a Cockney innkeeper and Sally Hawkins as Wonka's mother.

From BBC • Apr. 28, 2023

We’ve heard from Basel that Bernd played the part of the innkeeper in Minna von Barnhelm.

From "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank