It’s not easy to write a compelling story with a protagonist who’s a clueless nincompoop, but midcentury best seller Daphne du Maurier excelled at it. In her Rebecca (1938), the deceased title character way overshadows the mousy heroine. And in My Cousin Rachel (1951), set in the Victorian era, the callow hero is no match […]
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