At the age of sixteen she was sent to Paris where she studied singing and piano. She considered becoming a professional opera singer but her voice was not strong enough. Also she considered becoming a concert pianist but her music master told her that she was too nervous to contemplate playing in public. Nevertheless she continued to play privately at Greenway House and elsewhere. After finishing school, Agatha spent three months in Egypt with her mother. When she returned to England in 1912 she met Colonel Lieutenant Archibald Christie and they married on Christmas Eve in 1914, at the beginning of the war. He went straight off to the war and Agatha worked in the dispensary of a Red cross hospital in Torquay. There she learned about chemicals and poisons, which proved very useful to her in her later careerAfter long time Archibald returned home and on August 5 in 1919 their daughter Rosalind was born.
Agatha and Archie went in 1922 on a British Empire Exhibition. They also moved to a house called "Styles" after her first novel.
But the marriage was unhappy. It didn't last because Archie had fallen in love with another woman and so he asked for a divorce in 1926.
The same year also her mother died. Because of that Agatha went missing for 11 days and was eventually found in a hotel in Harrogate, in the North of England under an alias. She vanished after crashing her Morris motor car. But her disappearance is still a mystery.
In 1928 the divorce was finalized and Archibald Christie then married Nancy Nelle and died in 1962. She later found happiness with her marriage to Max Mallowan on September 11 in 1930, an archaeologist who she met on her travels in Near East in 1927. She later often assisted her husband on excavations in Syria and Iraq.
She later often told:"An archaeologist is the best husband any woman can have. The older she gets, the more interested he is in her."
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