Max Mallowan Discovery" (1956) and his wife Agatha Christie described his work in Syria in "Come, Tell Me How You Live" (1946). Max's first wife, Lady Mallowan, known to millions as Dame Agatha Christie, died in 1976; the following year, Mallowan married Barbara Hastings Parker, an archaeologist, who had been his epigraphist at Nimrud and Secretary of the British School of Archaeology in Iraq. Mallowan was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 1960 Queen's Birthday Honours, and knighted in 1968. He and Dame Agatha Christie were among a number of married couples each of whom held knightly
The Murder on the Links resemble the actual jacket which shows Monsieur Renauld digging the open grave on the golf course at night. Christie dedicated her third book as follows:"To My Husband. A fellow enthusiast for detective stories and to whom I am indebted for much helpful advice and criticism". Christie refers here to her first husband, Archibald Christie (1890–1962) from whom she was divorced in 1928. The dustjacket front flap of the first edition carried no specially written blurb. Instead it carried quotes of reviews for "The Mysterious Affair at Styles" whilst the back jacket flap carried similar quotes for "The Secret Adversary". "The