Charles Warren Adams (1833–1903)
Autore di The Notting Hill Mystery
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(eng) Charles Warren Adams was an English lawyer, publisher and anti-vivisectionist, now known from documentary evidence to have been the author of The Notting Hill Mystery. This is usually taken to be the first full-length detective novel in English. Born in 1833, he was the son of children's author Charlotte Adams, and the younger half-brother of clergymen and authors William Adams and Henry Cadwallader Adams. As a lawyer, Adams was involved in the bailout of the publishing firm Saunders, Otley & Co., which published his crime novel Velvet Lawn (1864) and detective novel The Notting Hill Mystery (1865) under the pseudonym Charles Felix.
Opere di Charles Warren Adams
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The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes: The Greatest Detective Stories: 1837-1914 (2019) — Collaboratore — 24 copie
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Informazioni generali
- Nome canonico
- Adams, Charles Warren
- Nome legale
- Adams, Charles Warren
- Altri nomi
- Felix, Charles
- Data di nascita
- 1833
- Data di morte
- 1903
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- UK
- Nazione (per mappa)
- UK
- Relazioni
- Adams, Charlotte (mother)
Adams, H.C. (step-brother)
Adams, William (step-brother) - Nota di disambiguazione
- Charles Warren Adams was an English lawyer, publisher and anti-vivisectionist, now known from documentary evidence to have been the author of The Notting Hill Mystery. This is usually taken to be the first full-length detective novel in English.
Born in 1833, he was the son of children's author Charlotte Adams, and the younger half-brother of clergymen and authors William Adams and Henry Cadwallader Adams. As a lawyer, Adams was involved in the bailout of the publishing firm Saunders, Otley & Co., which published his crime novel Velvet Lawn (1864) and detective novel The Notting Hill Mystery (1865) under the pseudonym Charles Felix.
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The Notting Hill Mystery di Charles Warren Adams
I usually like Victorian and turn of the century adventures and mysteries, but this one left me cold. Having two central conceits that my 21st century self found totally unbelievable (mesmerism AND "twins who feel each others pain even when separated") just pushed me too far out of the story.
A book students of the mystery genre will want to read, but not a novel I'd recommend to the average reader.
An interesting book. From the blurb it is one of the first 'detective' novels, although the sleuth in the book is an insurace investigator. Some proasic language that takes a bit of getting used to (it was written in 1865). Took a while to get into as the format is not a straight story, but an accumulation of documents and statements from witnesses. Overall an interesting book and good early example of the genre. Clearly some of the concepts (mesmerism) and language are dated, but gives a great authenticity. I would say 'give it a read' but probably only if you really a crime fiction fan. If this is your first forasy into crime fiction it may dissuade you from further examples of the genre.… (altro)
Considered the first mystery novel, the story is pushing the boundaries of the genre with a plot that is both very Victorian and very far-fetched, with an objective but very determined narrator who goes to great lengths to solve a puzzle that would not have been seen by many others.
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- Utenti
- 195
- Popolarità
- #112,377
- Voto
- 3.2
- Recensioni
- 13
- ISBN
- 20
- Lingue
- 3