The Woolleys invited Agatha back to Ur in 1930, and it was here that she met twenty-five-year-old archaeologist-in-training Max Mallowan. Katherine Woolley tasked Max with showing Agatha the historic sites and each found the other's company relaxing. Their relationship was forged by travel – Max could “rough it” and so could Agatha; she was unperturbed when their vehicle became stuck in a desert wadi, which Max found most attractive!Max proposed on the last evening of his visit to Agatha's family home of Ashfield, and they were married on 11th September 1930 at St Cuthbert's Church in Edinburgh. The eventful honeymoon included stops in Venice, Yugoslavia and Greece, after which Max returned to the Woolleys’ dig – for the last time alone – and Agatha to London and writing. Earlier in the year she had released a collection of short stories with the ethereal and his counterpart Mr Satterthwaite. In October, the first full length novel starring Miss Marple was published – . When Max later left the Woolleys for new projects, Agatha went with him, herself becoming a pivotal part of the dig team. She would write in the mornings and in the afternoons help on site, cleaning (with her face cream!), drawing and photographing the finds. She undertook a photography course at the Reinhardt School, the results of which proved too creative for Max who simply wanted everything recorded exactly as it was. Thus began a productive and recurring annual writing and travelling routine for Agatha and Max: summers at Ashfield with Rosalind, Christmas with her sister’s family at Abney Hall, late autumn and spring on digs in Iraq and Syria and the rest of the year in London and their house in Winterbrook, on the edge of Wallingford, Oxfordshire., Outsold only by the Bible and Shakespeare, Agatha Christie is the best-selling novelist of all time. She is best known for her 66 detective novels and 14 short story collections, as well as the world’s longest-running play – The Mousetrap., Born in Torquay in 1890, Agatha Christie became, and remains, the best-selling novelist of all time. She is best known for her 66 detective novels and 14 short story collections, as well as the world’s longest-running play – The Mousetrap..