The Notting Hill Mystery

Mystery crime fiction written in the Golden Age of Murder

"The book is both utterly of its time and utterly ahead of it." —New York Times Book Review

The Notting Hill Mystery was first published between 1862 and 1863 as an eight-part serial in the magazine Once a Week. Widely acknowledged as the first detective novel, the story is told by insurance investigator Ralph Henderson, who is building a case against the sinister Baron R—, who is suspected of murdering his wife. Henderson descends int...