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2 June 2026

Celebrating June Publishing Anniversaries — Including a New Book!

Celebrating June Publishing Anniversaries — Including a New Book!

It was in June of 1926 that The Murder of Roger Ackroyd was published. To celebrate this hundred year anniversary, all kinds of events have been planned, particularly by the Agatha Christie estate, publishers, bookshops, and Christie readers all over the world. June is also the anniversary of the publishing of my book Agatha Annotated, so this is a big month for me!

The Murder of Roger Ackroyd generated a lot of interest in its time because of the famous twist. Some readers felt Christie didn't play fair, but most thought she handled the story cleverly, and they went back to re-read the parts that fooled them the first time. I personally like Roger Ackroyd, particularly the Caroline Sheppard character, and the Mahjong party is one of my favorite scenes. 

In celebration of the hundreth anniversary of The Murder of Roger Ackroyd and the third anniversary of Agatha Annotated, Gnu Ventures Publishing will soon be releasing a paperback version of The Murder of Roger Ackroyd with the notes and commentary from Agatha Annotated. I'll be posting details of the release date here and on my socials, so keep an eye out for more. 

 

 

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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. 

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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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