In England, she became an illustrator of children’s books, then switched to writing thrillers with such titles as “Death in Cyprus,” “Death in Kenya” and “Death in Zanzibar.” On the train that spirited her away, she said, she and her sister made an oath always to return and then swore the oath in Hindustani.
The writer once told the Post that she had been grief-stricken when her family sent her to England for a formal education. Her nurse often took her to the local market to hear storytellers.
She said she was so close to her family’s Indian servants that she spoke Hindustani, a dialect of Hindi, before English. Mary Margaret Kaye, the daughter of a British intelligence official, was born in Simla, a town near the Himalayas to which the government moved at the peak of summer. One was “Shadow of the Moon” (1956), about the 1857 Indian uprising against the British. “The Far Pavilions” helped revive interest in Kaye’s earlier works about grand romance and adventure.
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