The highlight of a recent trip to “Investigating Agatha Christie,” a temporary exhibition at the Point-à-Callière Museum in Montréal, was Agatha Christie’s notebooks.

Point-à-Callière is a museum of archaeology and history – so what was Agatha Christie doing there?

Turns out her husband, Sir Max Mallowan, was an eminent archaeologist who worked on sites in Iraq and Syria.

When her husband was on a dig, Agatha Christie wasn’t holed up in a local hotel, busily writing her novels, she was Continue reading →