M. M. Kaye Libri

Tells the story of Winter de Ballesteros, a beautiful English heiress who has come to India to be married; and of Captain Alex Randall, her escort and protector, who knows that Winter's husband to be has become a debauched wreck of a man.

Tells the story of an English man - Ashton Pelham-Martyn - brought up as a Hindu, of his passionate, but dangerous love for Juli, an Indian princess, of divided loyalties, of friendship that endures till death, and of high adventure and of the clash between East and West.

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. Set against a background of war-scarred Berlin in the early 1950s, Death in Berlin is a consummate mystery from one of the finest storytellers of our time.

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 reuslt 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 Srinagar, she discovers to her horror that the killer will stop at nothing to prevent Sarah from piecing the puzzle together.

Dany Ashton is invited to vacation at her stepfather's home in Zanzibar and finds herself caught up in a search for hidden gold with a group of houseguests that includes a ruthless murderer

Vzdálené vrcholky hor má mnoho lidí v paměti jako romantický televizní film o zakázané lásce anglického důstojníka a indické princezny. Slavný román, který se stal předlohou filmu, je však mnohem rozsáhlejší a autorka v něm se strhujícími podrobnostmi líčí příběh, v němž se osud jednotlivce prolíná s osudem celé země. Hlavní hrdina Ashton je původem Angličan a první čtyři roky života strávil na cestách po Indii se svým otcem. Shodou okolností je ale nakonec vychován jako Ind a Indie mu také do cesty přivede lásku jeho života.