Rebecca was du Maurier's fifth novel, not her first, but du Maurier fans will likely find this inconsistency easier to overlook than the style of the first-person narrative. Along I went, mesmerized by the rising, angry ocean, its snarling waves lashing against the shapeless boulders." By page two, she has found the corpse, "her abundant black hair splayed across the sand, eyes wide open. "Walking with the wind, I allowed it to determine my direction. Escaping the 1928 London season with its pressure to find a husband, she visits her mother's retired nanny on the coast of Cornwall, "a dreadful old gossip." Danger appeals to Daphne. In Murder on the Cliffs, Daphne is twenty-one and has not yet penned a novel, though she keeps a journal and has writing ambitions and an adventurous imagination.
For fans of du Maurier's novels, it's an enticing premise.
Murder on the Cliffs imagines that the young Daphne du Maurier happened across the corpse of a beautiful woman and couldn't resist investigating who murdered her, thereby gaining the inspiration for her masterpiece Rebecca.
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