Daphne du Maurier · 1938 · road

Daphne du Maurier's 1938 gothic novel. A shy young woman, working as a companion on the French Riviera, is swept up by the widowed Maxim de Winter and carried home as his bride to Manderley, his great house on the Cornish coast, where the memory of his first wife, the beautiful and dead Rebecca, rules every room. The route runs from Monte Carlo to Cornwall and the secret that waits there.

1. 1
   Monte Carlo

   At Monte Carlo a timid young woman employed as a lady's companion is courted and married within weeks by the brooding widower Maxim de Winter.

2. 2
   Roscoff

   The drive across France ends on the Breton coast, and the Channel steamer for Cornwall.

3. 3
   Manderley

   He brings her home to Manderley on the coast of Cornwall, where the housekeeper Mrs. Danvers keeps the drowned first wife Rebecca alive in every shrouded room, and the new bride feels herself a trespasser.

4. 4
   London

   As the truth of Rebecca's death surfaces, a desperate drive to a Harley Street doctor in London reveals the secret that will either damn or save Maxim.

5. 5
   Manderley

   They race through the night back toward Cornwall, to find the sky above Manderley red with fire.