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29 October 2024

Find Our WGIL Interview Here If You Missed It

Don and I were interviewed by Will Stevenson on the Galesburg's Morning News program on October 25. We had a very nice conversation with him if you'd like to hear how it went. The station recorded the interview and the replay is available on their website.

We were in Galesburg because it was Homecoming Weekend for Knox College, where Don and I met. The local bookstore, Wordsmith Bookshoppe, also hosted a book signing for Agatha Annotated. The event went very well, and Teri, Wordsmith's owner, was a fabulous host. We still have friends in the community and were delighted to see them stop by. We also made some new friends of Christie fans who came after hearing about Agatha Annotated.

Many thanks to Teri, Will, and all the folks who came to see us at Wordsmith Bookshoppe! We had a wonderful time and were happy to be back in Galesburg!

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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.

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Agatha Annotated: Glossary of Terms

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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