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On a bitter November evening, young Mary Yellan journeys across the rainswept moors to Jamaica Inn to honour her mothers dying request. The warning of the coachman echoes in her memory as, terrified of the inns brooding power, she becomes ensnared in the dark schemes enacted behind its walls.

Jamaica Inn tells the story of the 23-year-old Mary Yellan, brought up on a farm in Helford in the early 1800s, but who is forced to go and live with her Aunt Patience after Marys mother dies. Patience is the wife of the keeper of Jamaica Inn, Joss Merlyn. On her arrival at the gloomy and threatening inn, she finds her aunt under the thumb of the vicious Joss, and soon realizes that something unusual is afoot at the inn, which has no guests and is never open to the public. Mary tries to squeeze the truth out of her uncle during one of his benders, but he tells her, Im not drunk enough to tell you why I live in this God-forgotten spot, and why Im the landlord of Jamaica Inn.

Much against her better judgement, Mary becomes attracted to Josss younger brother, Jem, who, though a horse thief, is not a villain like Joss. After Mary realizes that Joss is the leader of a band of wreckers and even overhears Joss ordering the murder of one of their member, she is unsure whether to trust Jem or not. She turns to Francis Davey, the albino vicar of the neighbouring village of Altarnun, who happened to find Mary when she got lost one day on the moor.

Mary and Jem spend a day together in the town of Launceston, during which Jem sells a horse he stole from Squire Bassat back to the squires unwitting wife. When it comes time to return to Jamaica Inn, Jem leaves Mary to go get the jingle, but never returns. Mary hires a coach to take her home, but they are waylaid by her uncles band of wreckers, and the coach driver is killed. Mary is then forced to watch as the wreckers trick a ship into steering itself on to the rocks and then murder the survivors of the crash as they try to swim to shore.

A few days later, Jem comes to speak with Mary, who is locked in her room at the inn. Mary uses Jems help to escape and goes to Altarnun to tell the vicar about Joss misdeeds, but he isnt at home. She then goes to the squires home and tells his wife her story, but Mrs. Bassat tells Mary that her husband already has the evidence to arrest Joss and has gone to do so. Mrs. Bassat has her driver take Mary to Jamaica Inn, where they arrive before the Squires party. Mary goes inside to find her uncle stabbed to death; the lawmen arrive soon thereafter and discover Aunt Patience similarly murdered.

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Keywords: romance
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