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05 May 2025 👁 5
So Happy with the Warm Welcome at "Lost Lingo" Saturday

So Happy with the Warm Welcome at "Lost Lingo" Saturday

Over the weekend, we debuted an updated version of "Lost Lingo," the talk we gave at the International Agatha Christie Festival last fall. Our hosts, Vito and Melany, were very welcoming as were the folks that came to hear our presentation. 

29 April 2025 👁 17
Our Pilgrimage to St. Cuthbert’s, Where Agatha Married Max

Our Pilgrimage to St. Cuthbert’s, Where Agatha Married Max

Among the many Agatha Christie-related places I wanted to visit during our travels last September was St. Cuthbert’s church, although it almost didn’t happen.

21 April 2025 👁 68
Updated "Lost Lingo" to Debut at Half Price Books in Bloomingdale

Updated "Lost Lingo" to Debut at Half Price Books in Bloomingdale

You are invited! Come visit us at the Half Price Books store in Bloomingdale, Illinois on Saturday, May 3, to hear our updated version of "Lost Lingo," the presentation we gave at the International Agatha Christie Festival last September. 

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15 April 2025 👁 54
Analyzing the ROI for Speaking, Craft Shows, and Facebook Ads

Analyzing the ROI for Speaking, Craft Shows, and Facebook Ads

Our March marketing featured a variety of experiences, which have been interesting to analyze, one against the other. If you are also an author, what we learned might be of interest to you when planning your own marketing strategies

08 April 2025 👁 52
Staying at the Old Swan Hotel – Just Like Agatha Did!

Staying at the Old Swan Hotel – Just Like Agatha Did!

After attending the International Agatha Christie Festival in September, we did a little touring. We particularly wanted to hit some Christie-related locations, so one night we stayed at the Old Swan Hotel in Harrogate.

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This website is the home of the Agatha Christie database as annotated by Kate Gingold, hence the name Agatha Annotated.

It's a rich glossary of

  • nearly 1900 terms
  • over 200 illustrations
  • 347 French phrases

Kate found them while reading Agatha Christie novels, and wrote them, along with definitions curated from years of research, into this database.

Currently the first 11 Christie books, those she wrote in the 1920s, are annotated here. 

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Kate Gingold

... has been a huge fan of the works of Agatha Christie her entire adult life. Christie's vivid descriptions of picturesque English life in the early-to-mid twentieth century fascinated Kate, but many of the people and places were unfamiliar to her. A writer herself, as well as a researcher and historian with several local history books to her credit, Kate began a list of these strange words and set out to define them. Now, Christie fans like you and all those who come after will be able to fully enjoy the richness of Agatha Christie novels with their own copy of Agatha Annotated.

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