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
A High Wind in Jamaica (novel) High Wind in Jamaica" was included as number 71 in the Modern Library's 100 Best Novels, a list of the best English-language novels of the 20th century. The cocktail Hangman's Blood is first described in this novel. A High Wind in Jamaica (novel) A High Wind in Jamaica is a 1929 novel by the Welsh writer Richard Hughes, which was made into a film of the same name in 1965. The book was initially titled "The Innocent Voyage" and published by Harper & Brothers in the spring of that year. Several months later Hughes renamed his novel in time for