In 1928, her divorce was finalized and she finished the book she had been struggling with for years, The Mystery of the Blue Train. Later that year, she published her first Mary Westmacott novel, Giant’s Bread. Two years later, she travelled to and archaeological site in Baghdad, where she met her future husband, Max Mallowan. They married in 1930, just six months after meeting. The two of them travelled all around the world for Max’s job as an archaeologist. While in the Middle East she gathered a lot of inspiration, which was