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Jamaica Inn

The inn loomed menacingly against the dark, rain-swept November sky. Mary Yellan, young and innocent, suspects nothing until she walks inside its cold embrace. What evil has turned her aunt into a frightened crone? What midnight crimes make Jamaica Inn a place to be avoided by all good men?

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  • "Trevor Eve reads Jamaica Inn / Daphne du Maurier"

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  • "Een jong meisje komt na de dood van haar ouders rond 1850 terecht bij een tante die getrouwd is met de waard van een oude, afgelegen herberg aan de kust van Cornwall."
  • "Jamaica Inn stands alone on Bodmin Moor, stark and forbidding, its walls tained with corruption. Young Mary Yellon soon learns of her uncle Joss Merlyn's strange trade there. But does he deal in blacker secrets still? As her suspicions and her terror increase, she looks in vain for help from the fearful Cornish people. She finds only two friends..."
  • "The inn loomed menacingly against the dark, rain-swept November sky. Mary Yellan, young and innocent, suspects nothing until she walks inside its cold embrace. What evil has turned her aunt into a frightened crone? What midnight crimes make Jamaica Inn a place to be avoided by all good men?"@en
  • "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."@en
  • "PLAYAWAY. 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, cowring from her overbearing husband, Joss Merlyn. Affected by the inn's brooding power, Mary is thwarted in her intention to reform her aunt and is unwillingly drawin into the dark deeds of Joss and his accomplices - container."
  • "Een herberg in Cornwall blijkt omstreeks 1850 een smokkelaarscentrum te zijn, waar men voor een moord niet terugdeinst."
  • "Mary Yellan takes refuge with her aunt in an old inn in Cornwall from which her uncle directs a smuggling ring."
  • "Jamaica Inn stands alone on Bodmin Moor, stark and forbidding, its walls tainted with corruption. Young Mary Yellon soon learns of her uncle Joss Merlyn's strange trade here. But does he deal in blacker secrets still?"@en
  • "The threat of danger cannot keep Mary Yellan from the answers. But will love turn to suspicion when Mary discovers the terrible secrets of Jamaica Inn?"
  • "After the death of her mother, Mary Yellan travels to Jamaica Inn on the wild British moors to live with her Aunt Patience. The coachman warns her of the strange happenings there, but Mary is committed to remain at Jamaica Inn. Suddenly, her life is in the hands of strangers: her uncle, Joss Merlyn, whose crude ways repel her; Aunt Patience, who seems mentally unstable and perpetually frightened; and the enigmatic Francis Davey. But most importantly, Mary meets Jem Merlyn, Joss's younger brother, whose kisses make her heart race. Caught up in the danger at this inn of evil repute, Mary must survive murder, mystery, storms, and smugglers before she can build a life with Jem."
  • "A young woman is marooned at a mouldering inn on the bleak Cornish moors."@en
  • "A tale of an old inn on the desolate moors of Cornwall where Mary Yellan takes refuge with her aunt after her mother's death. Mary's hope of rescuing her aunt and escaping is soon complicated by her unwilling interest in the landlord's brother, a horse thief."@en
  • "After her mother's death, Mary Yellon left the friendly shores of the Helford River to go and live with her mother's sister at Jamaica Inn, where her uncle was the landlord. She first sensed something was wrong when the coachman looked uncomfortable about her destination."@en
  • "Mary Yellon went to live at Jamaica Inn after her mother died. She stayed because of her aunt, once so lovely, now battered and haunted."
  • "Mary Yellan tries to discover the secrets hidden in her aunt's Cornish inn."@en
  • "Jamaica Inn loomed menacingly against the dark, rain-swept November sky. In this dire place only the wild moor could welcome the light spirit of Mary Yellan, too young, too innocent to suspect the truth about her new home. What evil had turned her carefree aunt into a haunted, frightened crone? What midnight crimes made Jamaica Inn a place to be avoided by all good men?"
  • "Jamaica Inn loomed menacingly against the dark, rain-swept November sky. In this dire place only the wild moor could welcome the light spirit of Mary Yellan, too young, too innocent to suspect the truth about her new home. What evil had turned her carefree aunt into a haunted, frightened crone? What midnight crimes made Jamaica Inn a place to be avoided by all good men?"@en
  • "Jamaica Inn stands alone on Bodmin Moor, stark and forbidding. Young Mary Yellon soon learns of their Uncle Joss Merlyn's strange trade. But does he deal in blacker secrets still? As her suspicions and her terror increase, she looks in vain for help from the fearful Cornish people."@en

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  • "Talking books"
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  • "Love stories"
  • "History"
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  • "Jamaica Inn"
  • "Jamaica Inn"@en
  • "Jamaica Inn [sound recording]"
  • "Jamaica inn"@en
  • "Jamaica inn"

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