Publisher's Synopsis
Set in the insular, genteel world of an all-boys prep school, this tense and electrifying Edgar-nominated classic surrounding an all-too-deadly production of Othello is now back in print.
In New York City, a young man is found murdered in a dingy Times Square sex theater-his neck gruesomely snapped-and the only clue is a torn receipt from the Montpelier School for Boys bookstore.
Christmas break is just a couple of weeks away when Montpelier student Russell Phillips fetches up dead. Headmaster Lane, preferring to view Phillips's death as a suicide, decides to keep the school open for the remainder of the term. But as the nights grow longer and colder-and more corpses begin to surface in connection with the rehearsals for Othello, the winter play-it becomes all too clear that the students and faculty are being stalked by a cool and calculating killer.
The local police and school administrators find themselves out of their depth. Even so, many people's suspicions begin to focus on a single suspect-until he, too, turns up dead.
A gripping tour de force that brilliantly uses an isolated boarding school campus as the setting for this propulsive mystery, Passion Play will keep the reader guessing until the final act.
