- Open Library Staff Picks, Fiction, Rabbis, David Small (Fictitious character)
From Library Journal Kemelman's 1964 mystery launched the Rabbi David Small series and snagged an Edgar for best first novel. The plot finds the rabbi investigating the murder of a nanny no more than a stone's throw from his synagogue. His investigation, however, turns up heaps of evidence pointing to the killer's being him. Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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Classical in form, grave, cool and earnest.
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- cooloverwhelming
- earnestironic
- character-ledplot-driven
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About the book
- Author
- Harry Kemelman
- First published
- 1964
- Pages
- 198
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd., Fawcett, Fawcett Publications
- Editions
- 7
- Language
- rum, English
- ISBN
- 9780517506912
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