Jamaica Inn (1983 TV series) Jamaica Inn (1983 TV series) Jamaica Inn is a 1983 British television miniseries adapted from the novel "Jamaica Inn" by Daphne du Maurier. It is a gothic period piece of piracy, smuggling and murder set in northeastern Cornwall, England in the early 19th century and stars Jane Seymour, Patrick McGoohan and Trevor Eve. It was directed by Lawrence Gordon Clark. The production is set in Cornwall, England in the early 19th century, centered on a free house, 'Jamaica Inn' in Bodmin Moor near modern Bolventor. When her seafaring husband dies in the destruction of his sailing ship by wreckers on
The Mystery at Lilac Inn The Mystery at Lilac Inn The Mystery At Lilac Inn is the fourth volume in the "Nancy Drew Mystery Stories" series. It was first published in 1931 under the pseudonym Carolyn Keene. Mildred Wirt Benson was the ghostwriter for the 1931 edition. In 1961, Harriet Stratemeyer Adams extensively revised the novel, creating a completely different story. The original omitted the lead characters from much of the action, the titular inn was only a place where a crime was committed with minor investigatory follow-up, and a domestic help sub-plot was out-of-place in 1961. Ethnic slurs and opinions were removed. The story