Rebeca

No one familiar with the film adaptation of this novel will forget the voiceover reciting the opening line of Daphne du Maurier's most accomplished work: Rebecca. Thus begin the memories of the second Mrs. de Winter, which transport her back to the isolated, gray mansion on the damp, windswept Cornish coast. With a husband she barely knows, the young wife arrives at this vast estate only to be inexorably overwhelmed by the ghostly presence of the first Mrs. de Winter, the beautiful Rebecca, dead but never forgotten. Her room remains untouched, her dresses ready to be worn, and her servant, the sinister Mrs. Danvers, still harbors an unhealthy devotion to her. And with the chilling premonition that something malevolent is gripping her heart, the young woman begins to investigate Rebecca's true fate: the dark secret of Manderley.