Daphne du Maurier of the "nation's best-loved novel" on the BBC's 2003 survey The Big Read. Other significant works include "The Scapegoat", "The House on the Strand", and "The King's General". The last is set in the middle of the first and second English Civil Wars, written from the Royalist perspective of Du Maurier's adopted Cornwall. Several of Du Maurier's other novels have also been adapted for the screen, including "Jamaica Inn", "Frenchman's Creek", "Hungry Hill", and "My Cousin Rachel". The Hitchcock film "The Birds" (1963) is based on a treatment of one of her short stories, as is the film "Don't Look
Bedelia Du Maurier seizure and began choking on his own tongue, she deliberately shoved her entire forearm down his throat, suffocating him to death. After The Tooth Fairy burns and disfigures Frederick Chilton (Raúl Esparza), Du Maurier suggests that Graham deliberately put Chilton in danger because he disliked him. In the series finale, "The Wrath of the Lamb", Graham consults with Du Maurier on a plan to bait The Tooth Fairy, Francis Dolarhyde (Richard Armitage), by allowing Lecter to escape police custody. Du Maurier is horrified, believing that Lecter will kill her and everyone else if freed. She is last seen in a