TY - BOOK AU - Du Maurier,Daphne TI - Jamaica Inn T2 - Virago modern classics SN - 9780349005133 (paperback) AV - PR6007 .U53 U1 - F/DUM PY - 2014/// CY - London PB - Virago KW - Romantic suspense fiction KW - Man-woman relationships KW - Fiction KW - Families KW - Hotelkeepers KW - England KW - Cornwall (County) KW - fast KW - Cornwall (England : County) KW - lcgft KW - Classic fiction KW - gsafd N1 - Various editions attached to this record; Originally published; London: Victor Gollancz, 1936 N2 - When her mother dies, Mary Yellan makes the grim journey across bleak Cornish moorland to Jamaica Inn, the home of her Aunt Patience and her husband, Joss Merlyn. On arriving at the gloomy, threatening inn, with the coachman's warning echoing in her mind, she finds her aunt a cowering shadow, and her uncle a hulking, vicious brute. Even more alarming, Jamaica Inn has no guests and is never open to the public. Mary finds herself powerless to help her aunt, and is drawn unwillingly into the misdeeds of Joss and his accomplices ER -