Jamaica Inn (novel) Jamaica Inn (novel) Jamaica Inn is a novel by the English writer Daphne du Maurier, first published in 1936. It was later made into a film, also called "Jamaica Inn", directed by Alfred Hitchcock. It is a period piece set in Cornwall in 1820. It was inspired by du Maurier's 1930 stay at the real Jamaica Inn, which still exists and is a pub in the middle of Bodmin Moor. The plot follows a group of murderous wreckers who run ships aground, kill the sailors and steal the cargo. Mary Yellan, twenty years old, was brought up on a farm
Jamaica Inn (1983 TV series) is not home. Mary also fails to meet the local squire/magistrate Bassatt at his home. However, his men accompany her back to the inn, where they find both her aunt and her uncle murdered. Bassatt and Davey show up at the inn, and Davey offers to take Mary in. At his home, she discovers paintings by him that show the two of them in a Druidic ceremony. They also prominently feature a Celtic symbol she recognizes as the one worn by the leader of the outlaw band. Meanwhile, the vicar has rejoined the squire and Jem and learns that the