The Day the Rabbi Resigned

Although his years at Barnard's Crossing have never been dull, Rabbi Small is bored with clerical duties and wants to teach. But before he can say "alma mater;" the rabbi is enlisted by Police Chief Hugh Lanigan, his partner in crime solving, to set his scholar's mind to a drunk-driving accident that looks like murder.

Victor Joyce, a local college professor infamous both for his ambition and his extracurricular activities, had been. drinking heavily the night of the crash. But a witness who passed by the wreck insists that the victim was definitely not dead, just unconscious. Rabbi Small's suspicions are further aroused when he learns that quite a number of "innocent" citizens drove down the seldom used road on that rainy Saturday night. Any one of them could have had it in for the not-so-revered-professor....