Jamaica Inn

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....

Set in

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  Bodmin Moor · United Kingdom

  Setting of the smuggling ring thriller; location of the real Jamaica Inn
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• Bolventor · United Kingdom

  Location of Jamaica Inn itself — the coaching inn at the heart of the novel