Penfield Prep

Volume Two continues the adventures, mishaps and indiscretions of the world of Penfield Prep from which Headmaster Wellington escapes with his mischievous wife until the heat dies down. She had been arrested as a hooker after being found half-naked on a busy street while researching material for a novel. He leaves the campus in charge of his assistant, Dr. Seymour Snipe, erudite and generally competent except for one peculiar habit: his fetish for stealing little girls' underthings from the village laundromat. This provides an opportunity for ambitious Dr. Yang Sun, the peripatetic teacher who is constantly spying on everyone'”teachers and students alike'”and has hiding places that include rest rooms and empty swimming poolsIn the midst of a blinding New England snowstorm, Hypatia Hogan and her father, Mick, lead the hunt for a missing student, complicated by the news that a former teacher, who had been assigned to Penfield's private mental institution, had escaped and is running around in the blizzard with a loaded revolver.