Word: mauriers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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REBECCA-Daphne du Maurier-Doubleday, Doran...
Daphne du Maurier, daughter of the famous Gerald, whose lively portrait she wrote three years ago, has written five novels. The fifth, Rebecca, is definitely two cuts above Jamaica Inn, the thriller which won her reputation...
Greater novelists might well admire Rebecca's craftsmanship. Again & again the reader is led with seeming casualness to the edge of a precipice of suspense. A competent craftsman, Author du Maurier manages to make her readers hold their breaths for 457 pages...
...MAURIERS-Daphne du Maurier-Doubleday, Doran ($3). Most famed but not most interesting Du Maurier in this fictionized family chronicle is George, the Victorian caricaturist and author of Trilby, which created an English vogue like the U. S. "Gibson Girl...
JAMAICA INN-Daphne du Maurier- Doubleday Dor an ($2.50). The granddaughter of Trilby's author tells the tale of a hard-headed young woman who becomes involved in a series of hair-raising crimes on the British moors of a hundred years...