Project Gutenberg 2014-06-30 Public domain in the USA. 128 Felix, Charles 1833 1903 Du Maurier, George 1834 1896 Maurier, George Du Du Maurier, George Louis Palmella Busson The Notting Hill Mystery Reading ease score: 72.0 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. Produced by Zack Steffens and Marc D'Hooghe (Images generously made available by the Internet Archive.) "The Notting Hill Mystery" by Charles Felix is a novel written in the mid-19th century. This early detective story centers around a complex and sinister investigation led by Mr. R. Henderson into the mysterious circumstances surrounding the death of Madame R", who apparently died due to a powerful acid found in her husband, the Baron R"'s laboratory. As Henderson delves deeper, he discovers a network of life assurance policies that tie into an intricate web of deception and potential murder. The opening of the story introduces Mr. Henderson's correspondence with the Life Assurance Association, where he lays out the peculiarities of Madame R"'s apparent suicide. The narrative is framed as an investigation into a series of unusual coincidences related to her life insurance policies and the events leading to her death. Henderson highlights the suspicions he has about the Baron, noting the discrepancies surrounding the marriage and the circumstances of the widow's demise. As it unfolds, readers are invited to piece together the clues alongside Henderson, setting the stage for a classic mystery of intrigue, identity, and possibly supernatural elements tied to mesmerism, suggesting a battle to separate fact from illusion. (This is an automatically generated summary.) file:///public/vhost/g/gutenberg/html/files/46153/46153-h/images/cover.jpg en Detective and mystery stories English fiction -- 19th century PR Text Browsing: Crime/Mystery Browsing: Literature Browsing: Fiction 324241 324219 2024-10-19T10:36:50.136129 2023-09-20T06:20:45.430490 text/html text/html 302370 2024-04-04T02:33:49 text/html 1762278 2024-10-19T10:36:55.265098 application/epub+zip 1765930 2024-10-19T10:36:51.356232 application/epub+zip 190154 2024-10-19T10:36:50.811097 application/epub+zip 1858976 2024-10-19T10:36:58.435102 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 1846436 2024-10-19T10:36:54.761068 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 272613 2022-09-21T04:28:14.881000 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 299574 299642 2024-10-19T10:36:49.649125 2023-09-20T06:20:45.021477 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 279727 2024-04-04T03:21:20 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 18304 2024-10-19T10:36:58.577097 application/rdf+xml 20351 2024-10-19T10:36:50.906142 image/jpeg 3077 2024-10-19T10:36:50.858116 image/jpeg 1679703 2024-10-19T10:36:50.207122 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia