THE DUMAURIER CODE
LIST OF CODE WORDS
Brewing: thinking up a novel
Cairo: intercourse
Crumb: good, wonderful
Dago: effeminate
Doing a Miss Clarke: overdoing it
Gondal: the world of the imaginary
Hard chair: to be offended
Honky: vulgar
Menace: an attractive person
Nanny: scary
Pegs: inspirations for characters
Robert: menstruation
Routes: habits
Royal: well brought up
See-me: vain
Shilling: disappointment
Spinning: sexual preliminaries
Tell-him: boring
To cliff: to ignore
Venetian: lesbian
Waine: embarrassing
Wax: make love
Witherspoons: boring people
NICKNAMES
Bing, Track, or Tray: Daphne du Maurier
Bird: Jeanne du Maurier
Ferdie: Fernande Yvon
Hacker: Olive Browning
Kicky: George du Maurier
Kits: Christian Browning
Lady Mo: Muriel du Maurier
Mena: Menabilly
Moper: Tommy Boy Browning
Piffy: Angela du Maurier
The Zulus: the children of Tessa and her first husband, Peter de Zulueta