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M. M Kaye
2) Trade Wind
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Oakhill Publishing Limited
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English
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The year is 1859 and Hero Hollis, beautiful and headstrong niece of the American consul, arrives in Zanzibar. It is an earthly paradise; it is also the last outpost of the Slave Trade. A passionate opponent of slavery, Hero is swept into a turmoil of royal intrigue, abduction, piracy, smuggling and a virulent cholera epidemic. There in Zanziba, the most cruelly beautiful island of the Southern Seas, she must choose her love and unravel her destiny.
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English
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From its beginning in the foothills of the towering Himalayas, to the burning plains, to the besieged British Mission in Kabul, M.M. Kaye's masterwork is a vast, rich and vibrant tapestry of love and war that ranks with the greatest panoramic sagas of modern fiction. It begins in 1857 when, following the Indian Mutiny, young English orphan Ashton is disguised by his ayah Sita as her Indian son, Ashok. As he forgets his true identity, his destiny is...
Author
Series
(Mary Margaret),[Death in series] volume 3
Publisher
St. Martin's
Pub. Date
c1984.
Language
English
Description
Twenty-year-old Amanda Derrington is on an extended cruise with her uncle when she decides to make a short side trip to the sun-washed island of Cyprus. But even before the ship arrives in port, there is a suspicious death. Once the passengers reach the island, it soon becomes clear that the death was in fact an act of murder. What Amanda had meant to be a pleasant excursion quickly takes a turn for the worse in this classic novel of suspense and...
Author
Series
(Mary Margaret),Share of summer volume 1
Publisher
St. Martin's
Pub. Date
1990.
Language
English
Description
Readers of M.M. Kaye's fiction will discover here the source of the characters, settings, and certain incidents of her novels. Most of all, they will bask in this warm account of a young woman's remarkable life--and the beginnings of a love affair with an India whose time has passed but which has not been forgotten.
Author
Series
(Mary Margaret),[Death in series] volume 6
Publisher
St. Martin's
Pub. Date
c1985.
Language
English
Description
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...
Author
Series
(Mary Margaret),[Death in series] volume 5
Publisher
St. Martin's
Pub. Date
[1983?]
Language
English
Description
In DEATH IN ZANZIBAR, a sequel to TRADE WIND, Dany Ashton and the other guests at her stepfather's house learn that one of them is a desperate and ruthless murderer. The air of gaiety and nonchalance that opened the house party fades into growing terror, as the threat of further violence flowers in the scented air of Zanzibar. DEATH IN KENYA unfolds in a remote and dangerous region still recovering from the Mau-Mau revolt. Victoria Caryll accepts...
Author
Series
(Mary Margaret),[Death in series] volume 4
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
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.
10) Death in Kashmir
Author
Series
(Mary Margaret),[Death in series] volume 1
Publisher
St. Martin's
Pub. Date
c1984.
Language
English
Description
When young Sarah Parrish takes a skiing vacation to Gulmarg, a resort nestled in the mountains above the fabled Vale of Kashmir, she anticipates an entertaining but uneventful stay. But when she discovers that the deaths of two in her party are the result of foul play, she finds herself entrusted with a mission of unforseen importance. And when she leaves the ski slopes for the Waterwitch, a private houseboat on the placid shores of the Dal Lake near...
11) Death in Berlin
Author
Series
(Mary Margaret),[Death in series] volume 2
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
En route to a Germany still scarred by World War II, young Miranda Brand finds herself caught up in a search for a fortune in lost diamonds and in a murder committed on the night train to Berlin.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Shadow of the Moon is the story of Winter de Ballesteros, a beautiful English heiress who has come to India to be married. It is also the tale of Captain Alex Randall, her escort and protector, who knows that Winter's husband-to-be has become a debauched wreck of a man.