![]() ![]() She ordered Max to escort Agatha, who was on her second excursion to the Middle East, on a round-trip tour of Baghdad. But it was Katherine's imperious nature that brought Max and Agatha together. He describes the notoriously difficult nature of the Wooleys - both of Leonard and even more so, of Katherine, who is gently portrayed in Agatha's Murder in Mesopotamia (1936). The odyssey at Ur is where Sir Max's absorbing tale begins. ![]() After graduation, he foundered a bit until being invited to join Leonard Wooley as an apprentice at Ur, an ancient city, now located partway between Baghdad and the head of the Persian Gulf. He was her husband, after all.įourteen years younger than Agatha, Sir Max Edgar Lucien Mallowan (he was knighted in 1968) was a classmate of Evelyn Waugh at Lancing and went on to earn a B.A. ![]() The book is excellent for its vivid recollections of the digs at Ur, Nineveh, and Chagar Bazar, among others its plates and illustrations of people, excavation sites and artifacts and of course its observations on life with Dame Agatha. As we near the 120th anniversary of Agatha Christie's birth (15 September 1890, for those who need reminding), Miss Lemon thought, what better way to celebrate the double-diamond jubilee than with a view of the grande dame of mystery through the eyes of archaeologist and Asiatic scholar, Max Mallowan?Īnd what better place to get that view than from Mallowan's Memoirs: The Autobiography of Max Mallowan (1977). ![]()
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