Passion play : a mystery
(Book)

"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"--Amazon.com.