THE NOTTING HILL 
i MYSTERY 



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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 
Netting Hill Mystery", thought to be the first full length detective novel in 
English. 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. The story deals with the then newly emerging field of 'mesmerism' 
which we now know as hypnotism, and its use in the planning and execution 
of three truly devious crimes. The novel, unsually, is written wholly in the 
form of a series of letters and reports gathered by the investigator from the 
various witnesses in the case, and the reader is left to decide themselves 
the guilt or otherwise of the chief suspect, (summary by Kevin Green) 

Read by Kevin Green. Total running time: 4:59:25 



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