The Day the Rabbi Resigned — Harry Kemelman

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....