Jamaica Inn by Daphne du Maurier a case with its roots

a case with its roots in old evil - and old evil is private detective Charlie Parker's speciality

The result is a page-turning saga that covers the same territory as the novels of Isak Dinesen and William Boyd

This Definitive Edition restores substantial material omitted from the original edition

but Anderson and the district attorney soon add DNA evidence to go with the fingerprints and witnesses

April 1813By all accounts

Jamaica Inn by Daphne du Maurier a case with its rootsOn a bitter November evening, young Mary Yellan journeys across the rainswept moors to Jamaica Inn in honour of her mother's dying request. When she arrives, the warning of the coachman begins to echo in her memory, for her aunt Patience cowers before hulking Uncle Joss Merlyn. Terrified of the inn's brooding power, Mary gradually finds herself ensnared in the dark schemes being enacted behind its crumbling walls and tempted to love a man she dares