Agatha continued writing into old age and wrote 66 novels and 153 short stories in total. She developed a great interest in archaeology and Egyptology. In 1939 Agatha married archaeology professor Max Mallowan and traveled with him on many trips. They divorced in 1928 and Agatha retained custody of their one child, Rosalind. Agatha ran away after this and was found days later registered at a hotel under her husband's mistress's name.
In 1926, Agatha published her first big hit: The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, but in the same year her mother died and her husband left her for his secretary. Agatha published her first novel in 1920, which introduced her longest running and possibly most famous detective character, Hercule Poirot. Archie went away to fight in World War I and Agatha helped the wounded soldiers back in England as a part of the Voluntary Aid Detachment (VAD). At the same time she was looking for a husband, and after a few failed relationships, met Archibald “Archie” Christie in 1912 and the two were married soon after. Agatha began writing after finishing school but could not get anything published. After her father's death she was sent to receive a formal education first in her native town of Torquay and then in Paris. Agatha was the youngest of three children and had a happy early life but her father died of a heart attack when she was only 11, and she later said that this marked the end of her childhood. They introduce themselves to each other, and t. All the guests meet at Oakbridge and later take taxis to the boat launch. Her mother was British and her father was a wealthy American stockbroker educated in Switzerland. The novel opens with a description of each of the guests who have been invited to stay on Indian Island and their journe. Agatha Christie was born into an upper middle class family in South West England.
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