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Can you name the first detective novel ever published? For years, many believed it to be Wilkie Collins's The Moonstone, published in 1868. Others speculated it might be Emile Gaboriau's first Monsieur Lecoq novel, L'Affaire Lerouge. Actually, the first modern detective novel predates both of these by several years - Charles Warren Adams's The Notting Hill Mystery, originally published as an eight-part serial in Once A Week magazine in 1862 under the pseudonym Charles Felix, then as a single-volume novel in 1863 by Bradbury & Evans, is considered to truly be the first.
Genre: Mystery
Can you name the first detective novel ever published? For years, many believed it to be Wilkie Collins's The Moonstone, published in 1868. Others speculated it might be Emile Gaboriau's first Monsieur Lecoq novel, L'Affaire Lerouge. Actually, the first modern detective novel predates both of these by several years - Charles Warren Adams's The Notting Hill Mystery, originally published as an eight-part serial in Once A Week magazine in 1862 under the pseudonym Charles Felix, then as a single-volume novel in 1863 by Bradbury & Evans, is considered to truly be the first.
Genre: Mystery
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