Harry Kemelman: Friday the Rabbi Slept Late

Harry Kemelman: Friday the Rabbi Slept Late (USA 2015)

From the Publisher:
First in the New York Times-bestselling series and winner of the Edgar Award: A new rabbi in a small New England town investigates the murder of a nanny.

David Small is the new rabbi in the small Massachusetts town of Barnard's Crossing. Although he'd rather spend his days engaged in Torah study and theological debate, the daily chores of synagogue life are all-consuming -- that is, until the day a nanny's body is found on the rain-soaked asphalt of the temple's parking lot.

When the young woman's purse is discovered in Rabbi Small's car, he will have to use his scholarly skills and Talmudic wisdom -- and collaborate with the Irish-Catholic police chief -- to exonerate himself and find the real killer.

Blending this unorthodox sleuth's quick intellect with thrilling action, Friday the Rabbi Slept Late is the exciting first installment of the beloved bestselling mystery series that offers a Jewish twist on the clerical mystery, a delightful discovery for fans of Father Brown and Father Dowling or readers of Faye Kellerman's suspense novels set in the Orthodox community.

Harry Kemelman: Friday the Rabbi Slept Late. A Rabbi Small Mystery. Open Road Media, ISBN: 9781504016049 (August, 2015), eBook, 680 KB (ca. 201 p.), $7.99.

Harry Kemelman: Friday the Rabbi Slept Late (USA 2002)

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"If Agatha Christie's Miss Marple and Hercule Poirot had had a son who naturally became a detective, sharp as Marple on murder, wise as Poirot on plotting, he would be known as Rabbi David Small." - Vogue

Rabbi David Small, the new leader of Barnard's Crossing's Jewish community, can't even enjoy his Sabbath without things getting stirred up in a most unorthodox manner: It seems a young nanny has been found strangled, less than a hundred yards from the Temple's parking lot -- and all the evidence points to the Rabbi.

Add to that the not-so-quiet rumblings of his disgruntled congregation, and you might say our inimitable hero needs a miracle from a Higher Source to save him...

Harry Kemelman: Friday the Rabbi Slept Late. The Edgar-Award Winning-Novel. The First Rabbi Small Mystery. iBooks, ISBN: 0743434870 (May, 2002), 208 p., $6.99.

Harry Kemelman: Friday the Rabbi Slept Late (USA 1991)

From the Publisher:
In the Beginning...
The answer to the prayers of mystery fans everywhere: A Rabbi Small adventure -- full of the wit and wisdom, persistence, and chutzpah, that put the Rabbi on the bestseller lists every day of the week! Ever since he made his debut with the first publication of Friday the Rabbi Siept Late, the adventures of Harry Kemelmans unassuming hero have been hailed by critics and fans. And now, at last, new fans and old can enjoy all the hair-raising tales and unparalleled logic of one of the world's most unusual sleuths.

Rabbi David Small, the new leader of Barnard's Crossing's Jewish community, can't even enjoy his Sabbath without things getting stirred up in a most unorthodox manner. It seems a young nanny is found strangled less than a hundred yards from the Temple's parking lot -- and all the evidence points to the Rabbi. Add to that the not-so quiet rumblings of his disgruntled congregation, and you might say our inimitable hero needs a miracle from a Higher Source to save him...

Harry Kemelman: Friday the Rabbi Slept Late. A Rabbi Small Mystery. Fawcett Crest, ISBN: 0449211800 (November, 1991), 198 p., $4.99.

Harry Kemelman: Friday the Rabbi Slept Late (USA 1981)

From the Publisher:
Friday the Rabbi Slept Late
-- hailed by critics as the best mystery novel of the year -- is much more than just a murder mystery. It is a superb story with wonderful characters, profound insights and a unique detective hero -- a shy, scholarly young rabbi, who finds himself in the middle of a murder and in trouble with his sophisticated New England congregation... "A rousing toast should welcome the advent of Rabbi David Small, whose Talmudic training makes him a master of detectival disputation." - The New York Times

Harry Kemelman: Friday the Rabbi Slept Late. Fawcett Crest, ISBN: 0449241653 (August, 1981), 198 p., $1.95.

Harry Kemelman: Friday the Rabbi Slept Late (USA 1979)

From the Publisher:
Not since the debut of Father Brown has there appeared so intriguing-and exasperating-a master of detection as Rabbi David Small. Trained in the demanding complexities of Talmudic reasoning (pilpul), he can see the third side of any question, an ability that may prove invaluable to him, thinks Hugh Lanigan, Chief of Police of Bar-nard's Crossing, since Rabbi Small is the prime suspect in a murder case...

It all began on Friday, when, as every day, the rabbi ordinarily partici-pated in morning services. But this was no ordinary Friday, nor was Rabbi Small an ordinary rabbi. He had a penetrating intellect, surprising in a man so young; he was independent and uncompromisingly honest -- not the best qualities to endear him to his New England suburban congregation. And he needed friends. His first year as rabbi was drawing to a close, and a small, noisy faction was expressing its dissatisfaction by open talk of not renewing his contract. They cited his uncoopera-tiveness, to say nothing of the way he dressed! And then came Friday, when on the very morning he failed to show up at services, the body of a dead girl, strangled in the rabbi's own car, was discovered on the Temple grounds!

FRIDAY THE RABBI SLEPT LATE iS far more than a superb mystery: it is a dramatic story that digs deeply into such basic questions as integrity and faith. Indeed, the running theological colloguy between the rabbi and the Catholic chief of police provides some of the most delightful passages in this extraordinary book. For it is only when both men finally come fully to know and respect each other -- and their dif ferences-that the case can reach its startling solution.

Harry Kemelman: Friday the Rabbi Slept Late. An Unorthodox Mystery. Crown, ISBN: 0517506912 (October, 1979), Hardcover, $3.95.

Harry Kemelman: Friday the Rabbi Slept Late (USA 1970)

From the Publisher:
FRIDAY THE RABBI SLEPT LATE
- hailed by critics a the best mystery novel of the year - is much more than just a murder mystery. It is a superb story with wonderful characters, profound insights and a unique detective hero -- a shy scholarly young rabbi, who finds himself in the middle of a murder and in trouble with his sophisticated New England congregation...

"A rousing toast should welcome the advent of Rabbi David Small, whose Talmudic training makes him a master of detectival disputation... If a series is in prospect, this could be the most important debut of a detective in recent years." - THE NEW YORK TIMES

Harry Kemelman: Friday the Rabbi Slept Late. An unorthodox mystery. Fawcett Crest T1381, SBN: 449-01381-075 (April, 1970), Paperback, ¢75.

Harry Kemelman: Friday the Rabbi Slept Late (UK ca. 1971)

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Over 350,000 copies sold in America.
Friday Rabbi Small missed prayers.
He slept on. A mistake.
Because Thursday night Elspeth Bleech was also put to sleep. Forever.
The coincidence worried his small-town congregation. It also worried the police.
Could this man of God be a murderer? Unthinkable? Wasn't the victim found in the Temple grounds? Wasn't the hand-bag found in the Rabbi's car?
Rabbi Small was alone.
It was a problem he had to solve for himself. With only the logic of the Talmud to help him.
The Talmud?

Harry Kemelman: Friday the Rabbi Slept Late. Harmondsworth: Penguin, ca. 1971, 20p 4/-.

Harry Kemelman: Friday the Rabbi Slept Late (UK 1967)

Harry Kemelman: Friday the Rabbi Slept Late. Introducing Rabbi David Small - the most extraordinary detective since Chesterton's Father Brown. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1967, 3'6.

Harry Kemelman: Friday the Rabbi Slept Late (USA 1966)

Harry Kemelman: Friday the Rabbi Slept Late. An unorthodox mystery. Fawcett Crest d863 (July, 1966), Paperback, ¢50.