{"id":12488,"date":"2026-09-04T10:17:34","date_gmt":"2026-09-04T15:17:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/?p=12488"},"modified":"2026-09-04T10:17:34","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T15:17:34","slug":"professor-to-discuss-agatha-christie-at-rolling-hills-library","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/2026\/09\/04\/professor-to-discuss-agatha-christie-at-rolling-hills-library\/","title":{"rendered":"Professor to discuss Agatha Christie at Rolling Hills Library"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_12489\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12489\" style=\"width: 250px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12489\" src=\"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2026\/09\/Michael-Charlton-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2026\/09\/Michael-Charlton-200x180.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2026\/09\/Michael-Charlton-310x279.jpg 310w, https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2026\/09\/Michael-Charlton.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-12489\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr. Michael Charlton<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sept. 4, 2026\u2013The academic year&#8217;s first Pop Culture Club, an event series sponsored by the College of Liberal Arts at Missouri Western State University, will feature a look at the best-selling novelist of all time.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cQueen of Crime: Agatha Christie and Her Detectives\u201d will be held at 6 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 10 in Community Room A of the Rolling Hills Library Riverside Branch, 400 Mosaic Court.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The talk will be presented by Dr. Michael Charlton, MoWest vice provost and professor of English. Dr. Charlton, who has been at MoWest since 2008, has written extensively on pop culture topics.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The talk is free and open to the public.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Missouri Western State University is a student-centered learning community preparing individuals for lives of excellence through applied learning. MoWest is located in St. Joseph, Mo., and is committed to the educational, economic, cultural and social development of the region it serves. Visit <\/span><\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">missouriwestern.edu<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sept. 4, 2026\u2013The academic year&#8217;s first Pop Culture Club, an event series sponsored by the College of Liberal Arts at Missouri Western State University, will feature a look at the best-selling novelist of all time.\u00a0 \u201cQueen of Crime: Agatha Christie and Her Detectives\u201d will be held at 6 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 10 in Community Room  [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":12490,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,48,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lib-arts","category-news-release","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12488"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12488\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12494,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12488\/revisions\/12494"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}