Jamaica Inn is a first-rate page-turner. - The Times
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After the death of her mother, Mary Yellan crosses the windswept Cornish moors to Jamaica Inn, the home of her Aunt Patience.
There she finds Patience a changed woman, downtrodden by her domineering, vicious husband Joss Merlyn.
The inn is a front for a lawless gang of criminals, and Mary is unwillingly dragged into their dangerous world of smuggling and murder. Before long she will be forced to cross her own moral line to save herself...
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Daphne du Maurier has no equal (Sunday Telegraph)
A true classic (Amazon.com)
Jamaica Inn is perhaps the most accomplished historical romance ever written (Good Book Guide)
Jamaica Inn is a first-rate page-turner (The Times)
A dark tale. A brilliant thriller (Daily Express)
A perfect fusion of gothic romance and a young woman's rite of passage in the vein of Twilight and Wuthering Heights (Independent)
* By one of the 20th century's best loved storytellers.
* A classic tale of murder, mystery and passion - compare to Wuthering Heights.
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Book Description Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. On a bitter November evening, young Mary Yellan journeys across the rainswept moors to Jamaica Inn in honour of her mother's dying request. When she arrives, the warning of the coachman begins to echo in her memory, for her aunt Patience cowers before hulking Uncle Joss Merlyn. Terrified of the inn's brooding power, Mary gradually finds herself ensnared in the dark schemes being enacted behind its crumbling walls -- and tempted to love a man she dares not trust. A tale of murder, mystery and romance. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9781844080397
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