Yes, by heaven, and you’d be lying at my feet now, like your Aunt Patience.” Mary is only spared being gang raped by Joss’s gang because she is his niece, “if you hadn’t had that honour – by God, there wouldn’t be much left of you now!” And her misogynist uncle drives home her condition, “I could have had you your first week at Jamaica Inn, if I’d wanted you. So starts this tale of adventure, smugglers and wreckers, violent and greedy men, who have lost sight of all morality and commit mass murder for profit.Īunt Patience lives in constant fear of her husband’s drinking binges and frequent beatings. They arrive at the desolate tavern in the middle of Bodmin moor, its ‘ battered signboard swinging and groaning in the wind like a dead man on a gibbet.’ Her Uncle Joss greets her with a warning: if she values her life, she’ll turn a blind eye to the wagons that visit in the night. “That’s no place for a girl,” the coach driver tells her. When the coach driver hears where she’s going, he insists she must have made a mistake. Her mother’s dying wish was that she take refuge with her Aunt Patience at Jamaica Inn. On a nasty November night, Mary Yellan crosses Bodmin moor. Jamaica Inn by Daphne du Maurier was first published in 1936.
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