Jamaica Inn
by Daphne du Maurier
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The inn is derelict, and no decent folks will come to it, speaking of it in fearful whispers. When Mary Yellan joins her aunt, married to the owner, she soon finds she has but two friends on the wild moors--the mysterious parson and an insolent, likeable horsethief.
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Fiction, Smugglers, Detective and mystery stories, Romance fiction, Roman, Contrebande, Love stories, Fiction, mystery & detective, general, Fiction, general, Romance, Suspense, Gothic, Romance-language fiction, English literature, Fiction, romance, suspense, Cornwall (england : county), fictionTimes
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"First Avon Twilight Printing: May 1999"--T.p. verso.
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Her mother's dying request takes Mary Yellan on a sad journey across the bleak moorland of Cornwall to reach Jamaica Inn, the home of her Aunt Patience. With the coachman's warning echoing in her memory, Mary arrives at a dismal place to find Patience a changed woman, cowering from her overbearing husband, Joss Merlyn.
Affected by the Inn's brooding power, Mary is thwarted in her attention to reform her aunt, and unwillingly drawn into the dark deeds of Joss and his accomplices. And, as she struggles with events beyond her control, Mary is further thrown by her feelings for a man she dare not trust....
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