Agatha Christie, the Queen of Crime, is best known for her classic British mysteries featuring Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple ...

This story appears in the July 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine. When British archaeologist Max Mallowan investigated the neo-Assyrian site of Nimrud in northern Iraq, he got help from ...

In 1930, recovering from a personal crisis, Agatha Christie fell in love with and married Max Mallowan. This relationship, and the security it brought, saw Agatha enter the most prolific and ...