Murder, The Rabbi Wrote: Remembering Harry Kemelman, whose unorthodox sleuth, Rabbi David Small, captivated millions of readers.

From: The New York Jewish Week | Date: December 27, 1996| Author: | Copyright information

Murder, The Rabbi Wrote: Remembering Harry Kemelman, whose unorthodox. sleuth, Rabbi David-Small, captivated millions of readers.

Sunday the readers mourned.

Novelist Harry Kemelman, creator of the popular sleuth Rabbi David Small who first appeared in "Friday the Rabbi Slept Late," died Dec. 15 at his home in Marblehead, Mass., of renal failure, three weeks after his 88th birthday.

Called "the Jewish Sherlock Holmes" and "America's most unorthodox detective," Rabbi Small used hair-splitting Talmudic arguments to solve mysteries in his small Massachusetts town of Barnards Crossing, a place ...

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