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Mademoiselle de Scudéri — cover
Mademoiselle de Scudéri — alternate edition cover
Also includedOriginal German edition
Mystery · 1820 Staff pick

Mademoiselle de Scudéri

A Tale of the Times of Louis XIV.
English & GermanIllustratedNarrated

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”), Includes original illustrations and an AI-narration.

DetectiveCrimeRomanticism
Author
E. T. A. Hoffmann
First published
1820
Original title
Das Fräulein von Scuderi
Language
German / English
Translator
J. T. Bealby
Length
85 pages
Illustrations
Original illustrations included
Audio
AI-narrated reading included
Rights
Public domain · Restored 2026
Also restored

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