M. M. Kaye

In this third volume of Kaye's autobiography of life growing up in India, we see Molly torn away form her beloved India to set up home in China where she discovers the giddy pleasure of independence gained through the success of her painting.

Death in the Andamans is a masterpiece of mystery and romance from one of our most beloved authors. When a violent storm lashes the tiny Andaman Islands in the Bay of Bengal, Copper Randal barely manages a safe return to Government House. She does get back in one piece with her hostess, Valerie Masson, Val's fiance, and handsome naval officer Nick Tarrent, but one of the islanders is unaccounted for when the boats return to harbor. Cut off from the mainland and confined to the shadowy, haunted guest quarters, Copper and the other visitors conclude that one of their number is a murderer. The killer must be found before the storm destroys all trace of any possible clues. In Death in the Andamans M.M. Kaye has created the perfect blend of exotic setting and expertly crafted whodunit that mark her as one of our greatest literary talents.

Mobnlit mountains, heart-stopping suspense, and sudden death -- all await you in Kashmir Sarah Parrish has traveled to the mountainous paradise of Kashmir for some skiing and much needed relaxation. But a pall is cast over the snow-capped peaks when two women in her party are found dead on the treacherous wintry slopes. Unable to shake off her conviction that these accidents were in fact murder, Sarah heads down to the lush, lake-rimmed capital city of Srinagar where the women once lived. There she meets the mysterious Charles Mallory, who sparks both passion and foreboding in her heart. And there too she discovers something that chills her very soul...and may soon cost her life.

After the death of his parents, young Ashton Pelham-Martyn is brought up as a Hindu in a remote corner of British India. As an adult soldier he returns to India, where his love for a princess and his dual heritage make for an epic story of adventure and romance.

The scene is teeming Zanzibar just before the American Civil War, when the Isle of Cloves was a center of African slave trade. To it comes Hero Athena Hollis, a Boston bluestocking filled with self-righteousness and bent on good deeds. Then she meets Rory Frost, a cynical, wicked, shrewd and good-humored trader in slaves. What is Hero to make of him (and of her feelings for him)? "Tightly plotted, crammed with detail and irresistibly romantic." (Cosmopolitan) Note: M.M. Kaye is the author of The Far Pavilions, one of the great stories to emerge from British India.

Charlie had spent all her life in Australia, and had only heard stories of Foxhill, her father's old family home in Sussex. Now her father was dead and Charlie was visiting England - and her relatives - for the first time. She realised that she would come as a great surprise to them - they hadn't, after all, known of her existence - but she certainly hadn't expected quite so much hostility and suspicion. Whatever the family quarrel had been about, it was still being carried on with the next generation! The only person who showed her any friendliness was Piers Chastel - and Piers' friend Merle Sheldon soon made up her mind to put a stop to that! Shouldn't Charlie have second thoughts, and go away and leave them all?

Roman policier exotique par une écrivaine qui a fait ses preuves avec ##Pavillons lointains##.

2 Volume Set

The Far Pavilions is the story of an English man - Ashton Pelham-Martyn - brought up as a Hindu. It is the story of his passionate, but dangerous love for Juli, an Indian princess. It is the story of divided loyalties, of friendship that endures till death, of high adventure and of the clash between East and West. To the burning plains and snow-capped mountains of this great, humming continent, M.M. Kaye brings her exceptional gifts of storytelling and meticulous historical accuracy, plus her insight into the human heart.

Set against a background of war-scarred Berlin in the early 1950s, M. M. Kaye's Death in Berlin is a consummate mystery from one of the finest storytellers of our time. Miranda Brand is visiting Germany for what is supposed to be a month's vacation. But from the moment that Brigadier Brindley relates the story about a fortune in lost diamonds--a story in which Miranda herself figures in an unusual way--the vacation atmosphere becomes transformed into something more ominous. And when murder strikes on the night train to Berlin, Miranda finds herself unwillingly involved in a complex chain of events that will soon throw her own life into peril.

Victoria Caryll accepts her aunt Lady Emily Debrett's offer of a position at "Flamingo," the family estate in Kenya, and finds herself confronted with her former fiance Eden DeBrett in a household beset by murder.

The excursion is to be twenty-year-old Amanda Derington's first trip on her own. But even before she reaches Cyprus, on a ship buzzing with romantic intrigues, jealousies and innuendos, one of her fellow passengers is mysteriously murdered. M.M. Kaye once again surpasses the expectations of mystery lovers with an intricate tale of hot-blooded passions and cold-blooded murder in one of the world's most exotic lands.