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4 September 2023

The First "Agatha Annotated" Presentation Is a Get-to-Know-Poirot Talk

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The First "Agatha Annotated" Presentation Is a Get-to-Know-Poirot Talk

I've been prepping a PowerPoint presentation to take Agatha Annotated on the road and I'm about to give it for the first time. Wish me luck!

This presentation is called "Agatha Christie's Poirot: The Clues in her Early Novels." I'm hoping that there are a lot of folks who like to talk about Hercule Poirot because I have a bunch of fun facts about him. Most of the information is from my Agatha Annotated glossary, of course! After all, Poirot was introduced in Christie's very first published book, so most of what we know about him originated in the 1920s. 

It has been a very long time since I gave a presentation, so I am extremely grateful to Willow Lake Estates for this opportunity and I trust they will be kind as I climb back into the saddle. I'm practicing dilligently, of course, but it will be very nice to have a successful outing behind me. 

Hopefully, "Agatha Christie's Poirot" will be well-recieved and I'll pitch this program to other places. I'll let you know how it goes!

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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.

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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