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23 July 2024

Thank You for All the Helpful Suggestions!

Thank You for All the Helpful Suggestions!

Don and I gave the Lost Lingo presentation recently. We got lots of great feedback to polish it up for the International Agatha Christie Festival and we're very grateful for the help!

We get so excited by the really minute details of our specific interests, but we were reminded that not everyone is as enamored as we are, so we plan to pull back a bit on that. However, the fun stories from the experts we consulted were well-received, so it makes sense to add a couple more of those. People liked how we played off each other and how the slides moved across the screen. In general, folks were very kind and seemed to enjoy learning what some of the references meant. 

We're reworking bits and adding more personal stories. We'll be offering this presentation one more time before taking it to England to get more feedback. Then it's off to England! I'm still pretty anxious, but I'm sure it will all go well. Wish us luck!

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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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