Harry Kemelman: That Day the Rabbi left Town (USA 2015)

From the Publisher:
The rabbi looks into a professor's death, in the New York Times-bestselling series that's "the American equivalent of the British cozy" (Booklist).
Retired from his job at the synagogue in Barnard's Crossing, Massachusetts, Rabbi Small now teaches Judaic studies at a Boston college. Finally able to enjoy theological contemplation without the annoyance of temple politics, the rabbi is shocked when one of his colleagues is found dead in his car -- and the clues at the scene point to murder.

The deceased English professor was notoriously selfish and held long-standing grudges against other members of the faculty, so the list of suspects is long. But when the rabbi who took over Small's position in Barnard's Crossing is implicated, it falls to Small to clear his name and find the true killer, one last time.

Harry Kemelman: That Day the Rabbi left Town. A Rabbi Small Mystery. Open Road Media, ISBN: 9781504016148 (August, 2015), eBook, 647 KB (ca. 244 p.), $7.99.

Harry Kemelman: That Day the Rabbi left Town (USA 1997)

From the Publisher:
Having resigned as rabbi of Barnard's Crossing Temple, Rabbi David Small is delighted to accept the newly created post of Professor of Judaic Studies at Windermere College in Boston. The position is just what he wanted -- even though his office hours keep him inside for most of the day on call for that potential student wishing to discuss some aspect of Judaism. Nevertheless, when an elderly English professor disappears during a snowy Thanksgiving weekend, no one expects him to turn up dead. Professor Kent's body is found in a snowdrift -- very near the home of an English Department colleague and the home of Barnard's Crossing's new rabbi as well. Heart attack? Rabbi Small thinks not, for a man as sublimely self-interested as old Professor Kent must have racked up many a grudge, and worse. As usual, the rabbi is right...

Harry Kemelman: That Day the Rabbi left Town. A Rabbi Small Mystery. Fawcett Crest, ISBN: 0449225704 (May, 1997), 263 p., $5.99.

Harry Kemelman: That Day the Rabbi left Town (USA 1996)

From the Publisher:
The New York Times Book Review called Harry Kemelman's last Rabbi Small novel, The Day the Rabbi Resigned, "a deft murder mystery...very smooth and wonderfully sly." Now, in That Day the Rabbi Left Town, America's most unorthodox detective deserts his old haunts for new challenges. But the more things change the more they stay the same, especially where murder is concerned...

Having resigned as rabbi of Barnard's Crossing Temple, Rabbi David Small is delighted to accept the newly created post of Professor of Judaic Studies at Windermere College in Boston. The position is just what he wanted, even though his office hours keep him inside for most of the day, on call for that potential student wishing to discuss some aspect of Judaism.

Nevertheless, when an elderly English professor disappears during a snowy Thanksgiving weekend, no one expects him to turn up dead. Professor Kent's body is found in a snowdrift-very near the home of an English department colleague and the home of Barnard's Crossing's new rabbi as well. Heart attack? Rabbi Small thinks not, for a man as sublimely self-interested as old Professor Kent must have racked up many a grudge, and worse.

And, as usual, the rabbi is right...

Harry Kemelman: That Day the Rabbi left Town. A Rabbi Small Mystery. Fawcett Columbine, ISBN: 0449910024 (February, 1996), 245 p., $22.00.