Harry Kemelman: Tuesday the Rabbi Saw Red (USA 2015)

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"The Jewish Sherlock Holmes" investigates a deadly disruption on a college campus in this New York Times bestseller (The Detroit News).
Once again, Rabbi Small finds himself looking for solace outside the confines of the contentious world of his synagogue in Barnard's Crossing, Massachusetts. When a member of his congregation expresses that she does not want him to officiate her wedding, Rabbi Small has had enough. He seeks escape by dabbling in academia with a part-time teaching gig at a local college. But his fantasy of a tranquil life in an ivory tower is about to come tumbling down.

A bombing at the school kills one of the rabbi's coworkers, and Small finds himself caught between adversarial students and feuding faculty members. As he investigates possible suspects with the same logic and measured caution that make him a brilliant religious leader, Rabbi Small finds that everyone has a motive -- and an alibi -- and it's up to him to uncover the truth.

Harry Kemelman: Tuesday the Rabbi Saw Red. A Rabbi Small Mystery. Open Road Media, ISBN: 9781504016087 (August, 2015), eBook, 721 KB (ca. 340 p.), $7.99.

Harry Kemelman: Tuesday the Rabbi Saw Red (USA 2003)

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Murder is not kosher! When David Small, our favorite rabbi and most unorthodox detective, becomes enmeshed in the murder of a fellow teacher at Windemere Christian College, he discovers things are not at all kosher around the school. From the moment the bomb goes off in the dean's office, everyone is under suspicion.

Harry Kemelman: Tuesday the Rabbi Saw Red. iBooks, ISBN: 0743445341 (January, 2003), 352 p., $6.99.

Harry Kemelman: Tuesday the Rabbi Saw Red (USA 1981)

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MURDER IS NOT KOSHER
When David Small, our favorite rabbi and most unorthodox detective, becomes enmeshed in the murder of a fellow teacher at Windemere Christian College, he discovers things are not at all kosher around the school.

From the moment the bomb goes off in the dean's office everyone is under suspicion.

Here is another marvelous tale of mystery and Talmudic logic in a series that is fast becoming a classic. "This Jewish Sherlock Holmes is not only as brilliant and perceptive as his British counterpart, but in time very likely will surpass him in exciting adventure. - DETROIT NEWS

"Chesterton and Father Brown would bless Kemelman and his rabbi. There are few such solid series around." - TIME

Harry Kemelman: Tuesday the Rabbi Saw Red. Fawcett Crest, ISBN: 0449241408 (August, 1981), 272 p., $1.95.

Harry Kemelman: Tuesday the Rabbi Saw Red (UK 1977)

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This is his fifth adventure, and fiction's most unorthodox detective sets out to discover if his students are getting away with murder.

Bored with the constant bickering of his congregational life, Rabbi Small jumps at the chance to teach a course on Jewish Thought and Philosophy at Windemere Christian College.

But academic life proves less restful than he had hoped. A bomb explodes in the Dean's study, and a fellow member of the faculty is brained by a plaster bust of Homer...

Harry Kemelman: Tuesday the Rabbi Saw Red. Fawcett Crest, ISBN: 0140042490 (January, 1977), 267 p., £1.25.

Harry Kemelman: Tuesday the Rabbi Saw Red (USA 1975)

From the Publisher:
MURDER IS NOT KOSHER
When David Small, our favorite rabbi and most unorthodox detective, becomes enmeshed in the murder of a fellow teacher at Windemere Christian College, he discovers things are not at all kosher around the school.

From the moment the bomb goes off in the dean's office everyone is under suspicion.

Here is another marvelous tale of mystery and Talmudic logic in a series that is fast becoming a classic. "This Jewish Sherlock Holmes is not only as brilliant and perceptive as his British counterpart, but in time very likely will surpass him in exciting adventure. - DETROIT NEWS

"Chesterton and Father Brown would bless Kemelman and his rabbi. There are few such solid series around." - TIME

Harry Kemelman: Tuesday the Rabbi Saw Red. Fawcett Crest Q2336 (January, 1975), 272 p., $1.50.

Harry Kemelman: Tuesday the Rabbi Saw Red (USA 1974)

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Friday the Rabbi Slept Late, Saturday the Rabbi Went Hungry, Sunday the Rabbi Stayed Home, Monday the Rabbi Took Of ... and now Tuesday is school day for America's favorite rabbi (and most unorthodox detective).

Rabbi David Small has had it with the constant bickering of congregational life, so when offered the chance to teach a course in Jewish studies at Windemere Christian College, he grabs it. He should have quit while he was ahead. His encounter with Windemere makes a temple board meeting look mild in comparison.

"Rabbi," according to the tradition, means "teacher" - but there's nothing traditional about the way Rabbi Small, trained in Talmudic scholarship and pilpul (Jewish hair-splitting logic), reacts to campus permissiveness, Women's Lib, even the noble profession of teaching (to a Jew a melamed, a teacher, is someone who's failed at everything else!).

One of the great appeals of Harry Kemelman's books is the way he weaves his views of Judaism into the plots (often in theological exchanges with Catholic Chief of Police, the popular Hugh Lanigan). As lecturer on Jewish Thought and Philosophy, the rabbi is free at last to present his ideas in full -- to students who are indifferent to their religion at best (they enroll because it's a "gut" course), argumentative at worst ("Why don't Jews eat ham?" "Is God dead - true or false?").

At a student protest a bomb goes off... a man is killed... and it's up to Rabbi Small, who can see the third side of any question, to discover whether the kids are getting away with murder... Literally.

Harry Kemelman: Tuesday the Rabbi Saw Red. A Novel. Arthur Fields Books, ISBN: 0525630074 (January, 1974), 276 p., $6.95.