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27 May 2025 👁 7
Do You Like Picking Out a New Book While Drinking a Cold Beer?

Do You Like Picking Out a New Book While Drinking a Cold Beer?

Alas, my application arrived too late to be part of this event! But it sure looks like fun, so I thought I would share the information for this Boozy Book taking place at the end of June. 

20 May 2025 👁 21
Some Authors Use Many Tools, But Even I, Sluggard that I Am, Use Some

Some Authors Use Many Tools, But Even I, Sluggard that I Am, Use Some

I read a lot of blogs and emails by and for authors, and a list of favorite tools available to writers is a recurring topic. I don’t use a lot of tools, but I’m not tool-averse either because they, obviously, can be helpful. Here are a few I use frequently:

09 May 2025 👁 50
A New Author Fair for New Networking

A New Author Fair for New Networking

For the first time, I will be participating in an Author Fair at the DeKalb Library. We often drove through DeKalb on our way to visit our daughter in college, and have stopped there several times, but I have never been to the Haish Memorial Library. 

Export event8/9/2025 10:00 AM - 2:00 PM  
05 May 2025 👁 47
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 👁 54
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.

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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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