The First Detective: Daniel, Susanna and the Elders

Read this short story, The History of Susanna, from the deuterocanonical Apocrypha in the Catholic Edition of the New Revised Standard Version of the Bible; it is a short story about Daniel, the first detective: Susanna (Daniel 13)

The History of Susanna from the King James Version of the Apocrypha was reprinted in the August 1960 issue of Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine. To listen to a recording of David Shamp reading the King James Version of The History of Susanna, click here.


SUSANNA AND THE ELDERS
A cinquain by Adelaide Crapsey (1878-1914)

"Why do
You thus devise
Evil against her?"  "For that
She is beautiful, delicate;
Therefore."

Adelaide Crapsey : The Poetry Foundation