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The Notting Hill Mystery
''The Notting Hill Mystery'' (1862–63) is an English-language detective novel written by an anonymous author using the pseudonym "Charles Felix", with illustrations by George du Maurier. The author's true identity was never formally revealed in his lifetime but several critics have since suggested that it was Charles Warren Adams (1833–1903),〔Buckler, William. "Once a Week Under Samuel Lucas, 1859-65." ''PMLA''. 67.7(1952): 924-941.〕〔 a lawyer who wrote a few novels under a pseudonym. The novel was revolutionary in its techniques and style and has been called the first detective novel.〔〔Flood, Alison. ("First ever detective novel back in print after 150 years" ), ''The Guardian'', 21 Feb 2012〕
==History==
''The Notting Hill Mystery'' was first published as an eight-part serial in ''Once A Week'' magazine beginning on 29 November 1862, then as a single-volume novel in 1865 by Saunders, Otley, and Company, with illustrations by George du Maurier (grandfather of Daphne du Maurier〔).
The editors of the magazine said the manuscript was submitted to them anonymously under the pseudonym of "Charles Felix". In 1952 William Buckler identified Charles Warren Adams (1833–1903) as the author of ''The Notting Hill Mystery'' and in January 2011, Paul Collins – a writer, editor and academic – writing in ''The New York Times Book Review'', came to the same conclusion.〔〔 Adams, a lawyer, was the sole proprietor of Saunders, Otley & Co., which published another book by "Charles Felix" called ''Velvet Lawn'',〔〔 and published an edition of ''The Notting Hill Mystery'' in 1865. Collins bases his theory on a number of lines of evidence, including an explicit reference to Felix's identity as Adams in a 14 May 1864 "Literary Gossip" column of ''The Manchester Times'' which read “It is understood that ‘Velvet Lawn,’ by Charles Felix, the new novel announced by Messrs. Saunders, Otley & Co., is by Mr. Charles Warren Adams, now the sole representative of that firm.”〔
A number of critics, including Julian Symons, a crime writer and poet,〔Symons, Julian (1972), ''Bloody Murder: From the Detective Story to the Crime Novel''. Faber and Faber (London). ISBN 978-0-571-09465-3. pg. 51: "..there is no doubt that the first detective novel, preceding Collins and Gaboriau, was ''The Notting Hill Mystery''.〕 and Collins,〔 believe it to be the first modern detective novel, but it has been overshadowed by works by Wilkie Collins and Émile Gaboriau who usually receive that accolade even though they came later.〔 Some aspects of detective fiction can be found in R. D. Blackmore's sensation novel ''Clara Vaughan'' (written in 1853, published in 1864), about the daughter of a murder victim seeking her father's killer,〔The Victorian Web: (Retrieved 7 February 2013. )〕 but Adams's novel contains a number of innovative features, such as the main character presenting evidence as his own findings through diary entries, family letters, depositions, chemical analysts report, crime scene map.〔 These techniques would not become common until the 1920s, and Symons said it "quite bowled me over" how far ahead of its time it was.〔
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