Mademoiselle de Scudéri

Widely held to be the first detective story ever written — decades before Poe. In the Paris of Louis XIV, a string of jewel murders draws the elderly poet Madeleine de Scudéri into an investigation of conscience, craft, and guilt. This restored edition is presented in both English and the original German (“Das Fräulein von Scuderi”), set side by side, with the original engravings and a full AI-narrated reading.