From Publishers Weekly
Politics--religious and academic--inform this welcome encore from the always entertaining Kemelman, whose Rabbi Small mysteries have won him a legion of fans.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From School Library Journal
YA-- A revealing conversation between Rabbi Small and his wife at the beginning of the book invites readers right into their thoughts and feelings and gives a direction as to the man's future plans to teach in a college. Through little twists and turns in each succeeding chapter, the story becomes more complicated. The Rabbi himself seems incidental to the main plot well into the middle of the book, but it is actually he who puts his logical ``Talmudic'' mind to work to help solve the mystery of who has murdered Victor Joyce, college professor and husband of a devout Catholic. Many people have motives, and all, for a time, are suspects to Lanigan, Police Chief of sleepy little (but now wide awake) Barnard's Crossing. A convoluted, sometimes humorous mystery that makes for entertaining reading.
-Bunni Union, Geauga West Lib . , Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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