The Notting Hill Mystery (Literature of Mystery and Detection)

Charles Felix was the pseudonym of lawyer Charles Warren Adams. This book, first serialised in "Once a Week" from 1862-63 then published in book form in 1865, has been hailed as the first full-length work of detective fiction, predating Wilkie Collins and Emile Gaboriau. This edition includes the original illustrations by George du Maurier which accompanied the serialisation.