Notting Hill Mystery
Author: first_name: Charles Warren
last_name: Adams
Language: English
Year: 1863

Charles Felix was the pseudonym of Charles Warren Adams, an English Lawyer and publisher and is now known to have been the author of "The Notting Hill Mystery", thought to be the first full length detective novel in English.<br /><br />
The story first appeared as an eight part serial in a weekly magazine in 1862, and was subsequently published as a single volume novel in 1865.</p>
The story deals with the then newly emerging field of 'mesmerism' which we now know as hypnotism, and its use in th