6/12/2023 0 Comments Friday the rabbi slept lateGuidall also excels in his ability to define the residents of Barnard’s Crossing. Guidall captures Rabbi Small’s brilliant, albeit low-key and harried, personality with ease. While the novel is a whodunit, it is character-driven and also explains Judaism and aspects of synagogue politics. George Guidall’s narration defines the personality of the series superbly. “Harry Kemelman fans consider Friday the Rabbi Slept Late to be the best of the late author’s Rabbi David Small murder mysteries. It seems a young nanny has been found strangled, less than a hundred yards from the Temple’s parking lot-and all the evidence points to the rabbi.Īdd to that the not-so-quiet rumblings of his disgruntled congregation and you might say our inimitable hero needs a miracle from a higher source to save him. Rabbi David Small, the new leader of Barnard’s Crossing’s Jewish community, can’t even enjoy his Sabbath without things getting stirred up in a most unorthodox manner.
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