"Last Night I Dreamt I Went To Manderley Again." So the second Mrs. Maxim de Winter remembered the chilling events that led her down the turning drive past ther beeches, white and naked, to the isolated gray stone manse on the windswept Cornish coast. With a husband she barely knew, the young bride arrived at this immense estate, only to be inexorably drawn into the life of the first Mrs. de Winter, the beautiful Rebecca, dead but never forgotten...her suite of rooms never touched, her clothes ready to be worn, her servant -- the sinister Mrs. Danvers -- still loyal. And as an eerie presentiment of evil tightened around her heart, the second Mrs. de Winter began her search for the real fate of Rebecca...for the secrets of Manderley.

本书作者英国女作家达夫妮·杜穆里埃（Daphne du Maurier,1907——）是英国著名演员杰拉尔德·杜穆里埃 (Gerald du Maurier) 的第二个女儿。她的太夫是菲德里克·白郎宁将军（General Sir Frederick Browning），有一子二女。她长期住在英国西南部大西洋沿岸的康沃尔郡（Cornwall），喜好驾驶游艇出海，在乡村田野间漫步，有不少作品即以此郡为