Tuesday The Rabbi Saw Red (33 page)

The sergeant leaned forward for emphasis. “Here’s the clincher,” he said. “You remember how we wondered how the killer could enter the office without Hendryx getting up to open the door for him? Well, there’s one person who could, and that’s the rabbi. Because he had his own key\ Oh, I’ve got a lot of questions to ask that rabbi –”

“No.”

“No?”

“No, Sergeant. I’ll talk to him myself.”

About the Author

Born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1908, Harry Kemelman was the creator of perhaps one of the most famous religious sleuths: Rabbi David Small. His writing career began with short stories for Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine featuring New England college professor Nicky Welt, the first of which, “The Nine Mile Walk,” is considered to be a classic (the Welt stories were later grouped into a collection with the same title). The Rabbi Small series began in 1964, with Friday the Rabbi Slept Late. It went on to become a bestseller, and won Kemelman an Edgar for “Best First Novel” in 1965. Kemelman died in 1996.

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