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Nov 24, 1908 — Dec 15, 1996· 88 yrs

UNITED STATES AUTHOR · FICTION · RABBIS

Harry Kemelman

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Friday the Rabbi Slept Late is a 1964 mystery novel by Harry Kemelman, the first of the successful Rabbi Small series.

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Attempting to compile a list of the best of anything is inevitably an exercise doomed to failure.

— from The 50 Greatest Mysteries of All Time

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Monday the rabbi took off

1972

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Rabbi David Small is back. The man who can see the third side of any question.This time he's on a private exodus to Israel to soothe his soul. He just wants to soak up the local scene - sit in the park, talk to the kids, go to the synagogue or (heresy of heresies) not, as the mood strikes him.But where Rabbi Small goes, so goes trouble. And Israel's no exception. Before you can say "Oy gevalt!" Rabbi Small finds himself in the thick of an international incident.Yes, Monday's the day Rabbi Small goes up against the Wall.

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The 50 Greatest Mysteries of All Time

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[Purloined Letter]( / Edgar Allan Poe A terribly strange bed / Wilkie Collins The three strangers / Thomas Hardy T[he red-headed league]( / Arthur Conan Doyle The corpus delecti / Melville Davisson Post Gentlemen and players / E.W. Hornung A journey / Edith Wharton The leopard man's story / Jack London A retrieved reformation / O. Henry The problem of Cell 13 / Jacques Futrelle The absent-minded coterie / Robert Barr The invisible man / G.K. Chesterton The infallible Godahl / Frederick Irving Anderson The adventure of the unique "Hamlet" / Vincent Starrett The Gioconda smile / Aldous Huxley Haircut / Ring Lardner The killers / Ernest Hemingway The hands of Mr. Ottermole / Thomas Burke The little house at Croix-Rousse / Georges Simenon The case of the missing patriarchs / Logan Clendening Clerical error / James Gould Cozzens The two bottles of relish / Lord Dunsany The chaser / John Collier The perfect crime / Ben Ray Redman Yours truly, Jack the Ripper / Robert Bloch The blind spot / Barry Perowne The catbird seat / James Thurber Recipe for murder / C.P. Donnel Jr. The nine mile walk / Harry Kemelman Kill or be killed / Ogden Nash The specialty of the house / Stanley Ellin Nearly perfect / A.A. Milne The Gettysburg Bugle / Ellery Queen The last spin / Evan Hunter Stand up and die! / Mickey Spillane A new leaf / Jack Ritchie The snail-watcher / Patricia Highsmith The long way down / Edward D. Hoch The man who never told a lie / Isaac Asimov I have / John Gardner [Quitters, Inc.]( / Stephen King Horn man / Clark Howard The new girl friend / Ruth Rendell By the dawn's early light / Lawrence Block Iris / Stephen Greenleaf High Darktown / James Ellroy The Pietro Andromache / Sara Paretsky Soft monkey / Harlan Ellison The hand of Carlos / Charles McCarry Karen makes out / Elmore Leonard

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Someday the rabbi will leave

1985

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In his latest and most challenging case, Rabbi Small needs every ounce of his persistence, perspicacity, and chutzpah as he finds himself up against corruption in politics and a hit-and-run death that was no accident.

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