Friday the Rabbi Slept Late [electronic resource]
Kemelman, Harry2011
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The act seemed innocent enough: A purse left behind and an acquaintance takes it so that he can return it. But when the woman is murdered, the man with the purse becomes the prime suspect. Rabbi David Small, a new member and leader of Barnard's Crossing's Jewish community, has few friends he can turn to for help. Fortunately, Talmudic logic is a weapon that cuts through all misunderstandings. Rabbi Small must clear his name by helping a skeptical police force to find the real killer. Published in 1964, Harry Kemmelman's "Friday the Rabbi Slept Late" mystery launched the Rabbi Small mystery series and won an Edgar Award for Best First Mystery Novel. The religious bent of the title caused its success to surprise many. Friday the Rabbi Slept Late kicked off a series of books and television adaptations. Before writing Friday, the Rabbi Slept Late, Harry Kemelman had written a mystery story "The Nine Mile Walk" which is widely considered one of the best mystery stories ever written and is among the most frequently anthologized.
Main title:
Friday the Rabbi Slept Late [electronic resource] / Harry Kemelman
Author:
Kemelman, Harry, Author
Imprint:
[Place of publication not identified] : RosettaBooks, 2011
Collation:
1 online resource (1 text file)
Series:
Rabbi Small
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Mode of access: Internet
Biography/History:
Harry Kemelman earned a B.A. from Boston University and an M.A. in English philology from Harvard. Kemelman taught at a number of schools before World War II and during the war, Kemelman worked as a wage administrator for the United States Army Transportation Corps in Boston and later for the War Assets Administration. It was after that war that Kemelman became a freelance writer and private businessman. He began his writing career by writing short stories for Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine featuring New England college professor Nicky Welt, the first of which, The Nine Mile Walk, is considered a classic. He was the creator of one of the most famous religious sleuths, Rabbi David Small - the key figure in his Rabbi series.
ISBN:
9780795305498
Language:
English
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BRN:
2791917
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