The Napoleon of Notting Hill The Napoleon of Notting Hill The Napoleon of Notting Hill is a novel written by G. K. Chesterton in 1904, set in a nearly unchanged London in 1984. Although the novel is set in the future, it is, in effect, set in an alternative reality of Chesterton's own period, with no advances in technology or changes in the class system or attitudes. It postulates an impersonal government, not described in any detail, but apparently content to operate through a figurehead king, randomly chosen. The dreary succession of randomly selected Kings of England is broken up when Auberon Quin, who cares
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