This was also made into a film, also called Jamaica Inn, directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Jamaica Inn is a dark and gripping gothic tale that will remind readers of two other great classics, Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights.
Against her will, she finds herself powerfully attracted to her uncle's brother, a man she dares not trust. When Mary discovers the inn's dark secrets, the truth is more terrifying than anything she could possibly imagine and she is forced to collude in her uncle's murderous schemes. Jamaica Inn has a desolate power and behind its crumbling walls, Patience is a changed woman, cowering before her brooding, violent husband. But when Mary arrives, the warning of the coachman echoes in her mind. Her mother's dying wish was that she take refuge there with her Aunt Patience. Daviss new historical novel revolves around The Dakota, the most famous address in Manhattan, and tells two intertwining. In the bitter November wind, Mary Yellan crosses Bodmin Moor to Jamaica Inn. with an eerie and shocking kind of power, in the novel's astonishing final act' JULIE MYERSON, GUARDIAN 'Jamaica Inn is a novel about nothing less than pure evil. 'Daphne du Maurier has no equal' SUNDAY TELEGRAPH 'Jamaica Inn is a first-rate page-turner' THE TIMES AN UNFORGETTABLE STORY OF MURDER, MYSTERY AND PASSION, FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF REBECCA.
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