Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Nine Mile Walk | 1967 | Harry Kemelman | Buy |
Harry Kemelman’s short story work is collected in The Nine Mile Walk, published in 1967. The collection features Professor Nicky Welt, a character who predates Rabbi Small and shares his creator’s love of logical problem-solving.
The title story, “The Nine Mile Walk,” is one of Kemelman’s most famous pieces and has been widely reprinted in mystery anthologies. In it, Welt demonstrates how a single overheard sentence can be analyzed to reveal a crime, using the kind of step-by-step reasoning that Kemelman would later give to Rabbi Small.