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14 August 2023

Author Fair at Gail Borden Library, Elgin

Event date: 10/8/2023 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM Export event

I'm bringing Agatha Annotated, Ruth by Lake and Prairie, and the other books to the Authors Fair at Gail Borden Public Library in Elgin on Sunday, October 8, from 2p until 4p. Lots of other great authors will be there, too!

Last year, I attended this Fair as a reader rather than as a writer and I met lots of interesting people. I also talked with a couple of folks that I had met in the "old days" when I was actively participating in events like this. My husband even found some people he knew through the theatre community! You just never know who will turn up when you start networking.

This will be the second outing since Agatha launched, so I should have all of my butterflies and oopsies controlled by then. Come on over to Elgin's beautiful library on the Fox River and say "hello!"

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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.

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... 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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