World War II saw Max get a wartime Cloze (1): JXUwMDMyJXUwMDA1JXUwMDBk in Cairo - using his languages to assist the war effort while Agatha Cloze (2): JXUwMDJhJXUwMDE3JXUwMDA4JXUwMDBjJXUwMDA4JXUwMDA3JXUwMDBiJXUwMDAx in England, writing and also volunteering at the Dispensary at University College Hospital in London.

N or M? was her own patriotic gesture to the war effort and she was disconcerted to see its Cloze (3): JXUwMDI4JXUwMDA1JXUwMDE3JXUwMDBlJXUwMDA1JXUwMDBhJXUwMDAyJXUwMDE1JXUwMDFkJXUw MDA2JXUwMDAx delayed in the US until after the Americans had joined the Allies.

Rosalind, having married Hubert Prichard, Cloze (4): JXUwMDNmJXUwMDA2JXUwMDE3JXUwMDEzJXUwMDQ1JXUwMDQyJXUwMDBiJXUwMDFiJXUwMDA2JXUw MDFj to Mathew on 21st September 1943. Max was in Cairo but Agatha was a doting grandmother and often went to help Cloze (5): JXUwMDM0JXUwMDAzJXUwMDAwJXUwMDA0JXUwMDRiJXUwMDQxJXUwMDA3JXUwMDEyJXUwMDExJXUw MDE3 the baby.

Agatha was focused and prolific during this period. Missing Max and with external entertainment more limited in wartime, she wrote and/or Cloze (6): JXUwMDI4JXUwMDA1JXUwMDE3JXUwMDBlJXUwMDA1JXUwMDFhJXUwMDFiJXUwMDBkJXUwMDAx such classics as And Then There Were None, Evil Under the Sun, The Body in the Library, Five Little Pigs and The Moving Finger.