Jamaica Inn

A classic thriller of shipwreck and murder from the author of Rebecca and The Birds.

“rich in suspense and surprise” —New York Times Book Review

On a bitter November evening, young Mary Yellan journeys across the rainswept moors to Jamaica Inn in honor 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.

The inspiration for the 1939 Alfred Hitchcock film Jamaica Inn. 

• “a first-rate page-turner”
  The Times
• “Daphne du Maurier has no equal”
  Sunday Telegraph
• “Jamaica Inn is a novel about nothing less than pure evil…with an eerie and shocking kind of power, in the novel’s astonishing final act”
  The Guardian
• "A dark tale. A brilliant thriller."Daily Express
  Daily Express