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Fill in the gaps with words from the box below and write your answers in the table below the gapped text[1].

|PUT |LAST |RELATIONSHIP |YOU |ROCKS |

|BEST |NOT |TOUCH |KITSCH |BRING |

|MENACE |MINOR |HIM |CAREFUL |THEM |

|BOOK |CRUELEST |MORE |NO |HIDES |

|ONE |ACTION |CARELESS |SMUGGLING |CHAPTER |

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ornwall, with its bleak, treacherous coastline and wild weather was for much of its history a law unto itself. Jamaica Inn may now be a tourist trap reduced to __________(1) by the publicity of __________ (2) literary fame, but when du Maurier would have first seen it, in the 1920s, it would __________ (3) doubt have been a __________ (4) desolate place which, with the right imagination, could easily be transformed into Robert Louis Stevenson territory and the heart of a __________ (5) ring that not only __________ (6) the booty but runs a gang of wreckers who lure the ships onto the __________ (7) to drown their crew and steal their cargo. (...) Once __________ (8) get past the second __________ (9) it’s almost impossible to read Jamaica Inn slowly. It is the burden of thriller writers to have the reader tell __________ (10) admiringly how fast they read your books. ‘I couldn’t __________ (11) it down’ is both the greatest compliment and the __________ (12) cut of all, since it almost certainly means that a reader’s greed to get to the end of the __________ (13) will have made them __________ (14) with some of the __________ (15) writing on the way. (...) There is virtually no spare __________ (16) here. It would be invidious to give away the __________ (17) twist, and while there will be those who see it coming, foresight doesn’t rob it of its elegant baroque __________ (18), with more than a __________ (19) of the Hannibal Lecter/Clarice Starling __________ (20) thrown into the dark mix. Mary Yellan sups with many devils in this book and by the end there is not even a long spoon between them.

|1. |5. |9. |13. |16. |

|2. |6. |10. |14. |17. |

|3. |7. |11. |15. |19. |

|4. |8. |12. |16. |20. |

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[1] © Sarah Dunant.

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