Last name of detective/rabbi David in a series of mysteries by Harry Kemelman
Rabbi David Small is not a 
detective who enters a crime scene, recreates the events in his head and 
presents... [DOC] [TLE] Harry Kemelman, 88, Mystery Novelist, Dies - The New York Times [PAR] Dec 18, 1996 ... Harry Kemelman, author of mystery series featuring small-town rabbi as ... with ''
Friday the Rabbi Slept Late'' in 1964, Rabbi David Small is the ... Leona Nevler, 
who edited Mr. Kemelman's last two books and was ... the series to Chesterton's 
detective stories featuring a sleuth named ... What's in a Name?