The pair met on Sir Leonard Woolley’s famous excavation at Ur, a project funded by the British Museum and, drum roll please, the Penn Museum. Dame Agatha married archaeologist Max Mallowan in 1930, when she was aged 40 and he only 26. The woman knew how to write suspense.Īnd, as most do not know, she was quite closely connected to the world of archaeology. I myself am only a hundred pages from the end of one of her books and am fighting the urge to skip ahead. We sit on the edge of our seats as Poirot twiddles his mustache and considers the impossibilities. Readers through the generations have relished her whodunits. What do the world’s best mystery author and the Penn Museum have in common?Īgatha Christie’s books are famous as being some of the most thrilling novels ever.
