The Napoleon of Notting Hill the start of Neil Gaiman's novel "Neverwhere". Both the novel and Chesterton's "The Man Who Was Thursday" are referenced in the 2000 video game "Deus Ex". (with illustrations by W. Graham Robertson) 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
The Notting Hill Mystery The Notting Hill Mystery The Notting Hill Mystery (1862–63) is an English-language detective novel written under the pseudonym "Charles Felix", with illustrations by George du Maurier. The author's identity was never formally revealed in his lifetime, but several critics have since suggested Charles Warren Adams (1833–1903), a lawyer known to have written other novels under pseudonyms. It is arguably regarded as the very first detective novel in the English language. "The Notting Hill Mystery" was first published as an eight-part serial in "Once A Week" magazine beginning on 29 November 1862, then as a single-volume novel in 1865 by Saunders,