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...Cousin Rachel, by Daphne du Maurier. An expert mixture of suspense and romantic hokum, set in the Rebecca country 100 or more years ago (TIME...
...COUSIN RACHEL (348 pp.)-Daphne du Maurier-Doubleday...
...coming British officer named Frederick Browning* confided to a boat builder in the late '30s that he hoped to buy a boat if his wife's next book turned out a success. No man ever had a sounder basis for hope. His wife is Novelist Daphne du Maurier, and the book she was working on was called Rebecca...
...latest Du Maurier novel, My Cousin Rachel (her tenth in 20 years), is no Rebecca, but it is still the stuff of which dreamboats are made. The movies have already bought it for a reported $100,000, and the Literary Guild has made it the February choice. In the current story market, neither could have made a wiser move. My Cousin Rachel is that comparatively rare thing in present-day writing, an expert blend of suspense, shrewd realism and romantic hokum...
Studio One (Mon. 10 p.m., CBS-TV). George du Maurier's Trilby...