Mystery & Crime, Fiction Subjects, Peoples & Cultures - Fiction
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Overview
Rabbi Small, bored with his clerical duties, is enlisted by Police Chief Hugh Lanigan to set his scholar's mind to a drunk-driving accident that looks like murder. Victor Joyce, a local college professor infamous both for his ambition and extracurricular activities, had been drinking heavily the night of the crash. But a witness who passed by the wreck insists that the victim was not dead, just unconscious. Rabbi Small learns that quite a number of "innocent" citizens drove down the seldom-used road on that rainy night. Any one of them could have had it in for the not-so-revered professor . . .America's most unorthodox detective is back in an acclaimed new mystery by the author of Friday the Rabbi Slept Late. Rabbi Small was bored with clerical duties and wanted to teach. But before he could, he had to learn a lesson: how an accidental drunk driving death might have been a murder. "Very smooth and wonderfully sly."--New York Times Book Review.
Editorials
Publishers Weekly -
Politics--religious and academic--inform this welcome encore from the always entertaining Kemelman, whose Rabbi Small mysteries have won him a legion of fans. (Jan.)School Library Journal
YA-- A revealing conversation between Rabbi Small and his wife at the beginning of the book invites readers right into their thoughts and feelings and gives a direction as to the man's future plans to teach in a college. Through little twists and turns in each succeeding chapter, the story becomes more complicated. The Rabbi himself seems incidental to the main plot well into the middle of the book, but it is actually he who puts his logical ``Talmudic'' mind to work to help solve the mystery of who has murdered Victor Joyce, college professor and husband of a devout Catholic. Many people have motives, and all, for a time, are suspects to Lanigan, Police Chief of sleepy little (but now wide awake) Barnard's Crossing. A convoluted, sometimes humorous mystery that makes for entertaining reading.--Bunni Union, Geauga West Lib . , OHBook Details
Published
March 1, 1993
Publisher
Fawcett
Pages
280
Format
Paperbound
ISBN
9780449219089