The British Library publishes the first detective novel...The Notting Hill Mystery

The British Library has published The Notting Hill Mystery by Charles Felix, widely considered to be the first detective novel ever published. Originally serialised between 1862 and 1863 in the magazine Once a Week and then published as a single volume in 1863, The Notting Hill Mystery has not been commercially available since then, until now. For years, many considered the first detective novel to be Wilkie Collins's The Moonstone, published in 1868, while others have proposed Emile Gaboriau's first Monsieur Lecoq novel, L'Affaire Lerouge. However, The Notting Hill Mystery can truly claim to be the first modern detective novel and pre-dates both of these by several years