the archaeologist Max Mallowan. In 1928, crime writer Agatha Christie made a spur-of-the-moment decision to go on holiday, alone, to Iraq. Then in her late 30s she was already a popular and ...

Agatha Christie’s second husband, Max Mallowan, was an archaeologist, but her contributions to his work were far more substantial than just this glib one-liner. Christie was a major financial ...