Mallowan was impressed by the way in which Christie, rather than succumbing to panic in the heat and dust, just lay down in the car's shadow to sleep while a Bedouin went off for help. They visited Nippur, Diwaniyah, Nejeif, Ukhaidir, and Kerbela and on a journey back to Baghdad, their car got stuck in the sand. Max, always wanting to please Katharine Woolley, agreed.Īgatha and Max got to know each other well and enjoyed being in each other's company during the sightseeing trip. Agatha felt terribly bad about this she was certain this young man (thirteen years younger than Agatha) was looking forward to heading home.
Woolley to give Agatha a tour of the various digs and cities. Max was set to depart to England after the season of work, but was asked by Mrs. Managing Katharine Woolley was an accomplishment, for she was a temperamental woman and always made people feel they were walking on eggshells or something similar. She described him as "a thin, dark, young man, and very quiet." She described Max also as a man who succeeded in managing people, like the workmen at the dig or even Mrs. It was there she met Max when he was 26 years of age. She accepted and went down to "the cradle of civilization" in March 1930. The Woolleys, in turn, invited her back to the dig for the next season. In 1929, Christie gave the Woolleys the temporary use of her then residence at 22 Cresswell Place in London. However, Max was not at the excavation during the time of Christie's visit.Īgatha and the Woolleys became instant friends. Christie was treated as an honoured guest. (Gertrude Bell described Katherine as "dangerous"). Visitors to the dig were usually discouraged, but Katharine Woolley was a great admirer of The Murder of Roger Ackroyd and being an imperious and difficult woman who always got her way in things large and small. Desperate to escape she travelled to Ur and made the acquaintance of the archaeological expedition's leader, Leonard Woolley (1880–1960), and his wife, Katharine (1888–1945). On the journey, she found herself in the company of a tedious Englishwoman who was determined to take Christie "under her wing", although that was the last thing she wanted. Entranced by the thought of such a journey, she changed her tickets at Thomas Cook's and set off for the orient. This was something that Christie had been reading with an avid interest in the Illustrated London News.
The Howes also mentioned that not far from Baghdad, an archaeological expedition was uncovering the remains of the ancient city of Ur. The Howes awakened an interest in Christie to visit Baghdad, especially when the Howes pointed out that a part of the journey could be made by the famed Orient Express.
However, two days before her departure, she was at a dinner party in London where she met a young naval officer Commander Howe and his wife, who had just returned from his being stationed in the Persian Gulf. In 1928, after Christie divorced her husband Archie, she planned a holiday to the West Indies and Jamaica, to get away and "seek sunshine", as she put it. Meeting with and marriage to Agatha Christie Max joined the excavation some three years later. The British archaeologist Sir Leonard Woolley was excavating Ur on behalf of the British Museum and the University of Pennsylvania from 1922. He was educated at Rokeby School and Lancing College and studied classics at New College, Oxford.
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