Passion Play

By W. Edward Blain

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1681776502
• ISBN13: 9781681776507
• Release Date: April 2018
• Publisher: Pegasus Crime
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.99 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.8" x 5.6" x 8.3"