Safe Return Doubtful

I can vouch for the rain-lashed and windswept moors that Mary Yellan crosses at the start of the novel, as I’m currently staying on them.. from here, it’s easy to imagine how it must have been as she travelled by stagecoach to the Jamaica Inn in the early part of the Nineteenth Century. The Inn is a front for a gang of criminals led by her menacing and oppressive uncle, Joss Merlyn.
It’s a novel in which the setting plays a key role, and du Maurier’s descriptions of the moors of Bodmin are wonderfully evocative. The story is of the coming together of two very strong characters, the level-headed and morally strong Mary, versus the abusive, violent alcoholic, Joss.
The book doesn’t fit neatly into a category of a romance, an adventure, or a gothic mystery, rather it is a tense psychological tale, and as a result, as aged well.