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13 February 2024

New E-Book Release!

Gnu Ventures Publishing is excited to announce the release of Agatha Christie’s The Mysterious Affair at Styles, annotated with the words and phrases from Kate’s book, Agatha Annotated: Investigating the Books of the 1920s.

The Mysterious Affair at Styles (Agatha Annotated) is currently available in a Kindle edition and will soon be available in other e-book formats as well. Making the most of the technology, readers will be able to click on a highlighted word to see a pop-up of the annotation and any image associated with it before clicking to return to their place in the story.

Readers have been asking for this since the Agatha Annoted glossary was published last year and Gnu Ventures is delighted to make it available. Check out the preview of The Mysterious Affair at Styles (Agatha Annotated) and get your own copy on Amazon today. The novel’s availability in other e-book formats will be announced shortly.

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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

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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