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    Jamaica Inn

    £9.99

    * By one of the 20th century's best loved storytellers.
    * A classic tale of murder, mystery and passion - compare to Wuthering Heights.

    ISBN: 9781844080397
    AuthorDu Maurier, Daphne
    PublisherNameLittle, Brown Book Group
    Pub Date06/03/2003
    BindingPaperback
    Pages320
    Availability: In Stock

    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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    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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