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) to the inn. Visiting him later at his church she finds out that he is much interested in local lore and mythology. Mary confides in him what she has learned of illegal activity at the inn. However, she only later learns the whole truth about their wrecking activity when her uncle confesses to it in a drunken stupor. On Christmas Eve Jem and Mary go to the market at Launceston together and have a good time but he then fails to pick her up with his cart. Mary is forced to walk home across the moor in driving rain and