Notting Hill the event contributes around £93 million to the London and UK economy. Notting Hill provides the setting for novels by G.K. Chesterton ("The Napoleon of Notting Hill"), Colin MacInnes ("Absolute Beginners"), Michael Moorcock (the Jerry Cornelius quartet), R. C. Sherriff ("The Hopkins Manuscript"), and Alan Hollinghurst ("The Line of Beauty"). Dan Waddel's "The Blood Detective" is a murder novel set in the past and present - featuring Notting Dale. The area's newer, wealthy residents are satirised in Rachel Johnson's novel "Notting Hell" (2006) set in grand houses surrounding a fictional communal garden. The area is also the setting of the
The Notting Hill Mystery Otley, and Company, with illustrations by George du Maurier (grandfather of Daphne du Maurier). The editors of the magazine stated that the manuscript was submitted to them anonymously under the pseudonym "Charles Felix". In 1952, William Buckler identified Charles Warren Adams (1833–1903) as the author of "The Notting Hill Mystery" and in January 2011, Paul Collins – a writer, editor and academic – writing in "The New York Times Book Review", came to the same conclusion. Adams, a lawyer, was the sole proprietor of Saunders, Otley & Co., which published another book by "Charles Felix" called "Velvet Lawn", and published