Jamaica Inn Jamaica Inn Jamaica Inn is a traditional inn on Bodmin Moor in Cornwall, United Kingdom. Built as a coaching inn in 1750, and having an association with smuggling, it was the setting for Daphne du Maurier's 1936 novel "Jamaica Inn", which was made into the film "Jamaica Inn" in 1939 by Alfred Hitchcock. Located just off the A30, near the middle of the moor close to the hamlet of Bolventor, it was used as a staging post for changing horses. As well as the Hitchcock film, there has been a 1983 television series, "Jamaica Inn", starring Jane Seymour, and a
Oriel Malet close friend of the author Daphne du Maurier. Their friendship is documented in the book "Letters from Menabilly: Portrait of a Friendship" (1994), a collection of du Maurier's letters to Malet over the course of 30 years, with accompanying commentary by Malet. Oriel Malet Lady Auriel Rosemary Malet Vaughan (20 January 1923 – 14 October 2014) was a Welsh-born author of literary fiction and biographies, who wrote under the name of Oriel Malet. Among her works is a fictionalized biography of the Scottish child poet and writer Marjory Fleming and a volume charting her 30-year friendship with Daphne Du Maurier.