English writer Dame Agatha Christie and her husband Max E. L. Mallowan, smile 30 August 1958 while visiting the Acropolis in Athens. Agatha Christie, born Miller (1890-1976) in Torquay, Devon, wrote, under the surname of her fist husband Colonel Archibald Christie (divorced in 1928) more than 70 detective novels featuring the Belgian detective, Hercule Poirot, or the inquiring village lady, Miss Marple. In 1930, Christie married Max E. L. Mallowan (1904-1978; knighted in 1968), professor of archaeology at London University (1947-78), with whom she travelled on several expeditions. Several of her stories have become popular films, such as "Murder on the Orient Express" (1974) and "Death on the Nile (1978). Christie was made a dame in 1971. (Photo credit should read -/AFP via Getty Images)
