He was educated at Rokeby School and Lancing College (where he was a contemporary of Evelyn Waugh) and studied classics at New College, Oxford. Together they had one child, named Rosalind, in 1919. She also wrote the world's longest-running play, The Mousetrap, which was performed in the West Endfrom 1952 to 2020, as well as six novels under the pseudonym Mary Westmacott. Yet her marriage to Christie lasted twelve years ending unhappily while her marriage to Mallowan lasted 46 years. Sir Max Mallowan, CBE. Agatha married Archie Christie in 1914 and had one child Rosalind with him. Her second marriage was to Max Mallowan, a famous British archaeologist who she met during a visit to the excavations at Ur, near Baghdad. Christie’s second husband, Max Mallowan, was the lead investigator, and the “detectives” in this case were not police officers, but archaeologists. The couple divorced in 1928. Max worked at Ur under the archaeologist Sir Leonard Woolley three years after Woolley began. Christie for her writing, Agatha Christie's first husband Archibald Christie is probably the first one we think of rather than her second husband, Max Mallowan. Directed by Sam Yates. Max Mallowan, Agatha Christie, and Leonard Woolley in 1931 Credit: British Museum O f course the murder plot is invented, and quite obviously so. Born Edgar Mallowan in Wandsworth on 6 May 1904, he was the son of Frederick Mallowan and his wife Marguerite (née Duvivier), whose mother was mezzo-soprano Marthe Duvivier. Sir Max Edgar Lucien Mallowan, Order of the British Empire, CBE (6 May 1904 – 19 August 1978) was a prominent British archaeologist, specialising in ancient Middle Eastern history, and the second husband of Dame Agatha Christie.. Life and work Edit. He and his wife Dolores had two sons, Peter and John. In 1971, she was appointed a Dame Comma… Cecil Mallowan (1907-1982) was the brother of Max Mallowan, the second husband of Agatha Christie. With Bronagh Waugh, Jonah Hauer-King, Lyndsey Marshal, Rory Fleck Byrne. Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie, Lady Mallowan, DBE (née Miller; 15 September 1890 – 12 January 1976) was an English writer known for her sixty-six detective novels and fourteen short story collections, particularly those revolving around fictional detectives Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple. Agatha had two older siblings named Margaret and Louis. On an archaeological dig in Iraq, author Agatha Christie uncovers a series of murders. Agatha Christie, the ‘queen of crime’ and the best-selling author of all time, also went by the title Lady Mallowan and had a deep passion for archaeology. Agatha married her second husband, archaeologist Sir Max Mallowan, in 1930. In 1914 Agatha married Archibald Christie, an officer in the military.