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20 August 2024 👁 493
Check It Out! My Podcast Debut on "All About Agatha" Is Now Live.

Check It Out! My Podcast Debut on "All About Agatha" Is Now Live.

When Kemper Donovan contacted me for an interview I was thrilled because he’s such a big name in the Agatha Christie space. But I was also terrified. Because he’s such a big name in the Agatha Christie space!

06 August 2024 👁 613
Who Are the Big Fours in "The Big Four?"

Who Are the Big Fours in "The Big Four?"

Many readers comment that The Big Four is not their favorite Christie novel, and even Agatha herself called it “that rotten book.”* Of course, fans will still read it, so it only makes sense to know a bit about what we’re reading. Such as: Who are these Big Fours?

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What is Agatha Annotated?

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. 

Anybody can be a member and gain access to this rich glossary. Visit the Community page to learn the details.

We took the 1920s terms and published a book, Agatha Annotated: Investigating the Books of the 1920s, now available on Amazon in Paperback or Kindle format.

Kate will be adding to the database and members get the new terms and definitions first before the second volume is printed, plus members can comment and ask questions about the terms and Kate and other members can reply.

We hope you enjoy. Click around the pages to learn more.

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Agatha Annotated: Glossary of Terms

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Annotator Kate Gingold

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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