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George du Maurier Illustrated Times", "The Cornhill Magazine", and the religious periodical Good Words. Furthermore, he did illustrations for the serialization of Charles Warren Adams's "The Notting Hill Mystery", which is thought to be the first detective story of novel length to have appeared in English. Among several other novels he illustrated was "Misunderstood" by Florence Montgomery in 1873. Owing to his deteriorating eyesight, du Maurier reduced his involvement with "Punch" in 1891 and settled in Hampstead, where he wrote three novels. His first, "Peter Ibbetson", was a modest success at the time and later adapted to stage and screen, most notably in