Rupert Holmes

Rupert Holmes has received two Edgar Awards from the Mystery Writers of America and multiple Tony and Drama Desk Awards for his Broadway mystery musicals, including the Tony Award for Best Musical for The Mystery of Edwin Drood. His first novel, Where the Truth Lies, became a motion picture starring Colin Firth and Kevin Bacon. His second, Swing, was the first novel with its own original, clue-bearing musical score. Holmes’s earliest story-songs were published in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine. He is also the creator of several Billboard Top 10 hits, including the #1 international multi-platinum classic with a twist ending that no one saw coming: “Escape (The Pifia Colada Song).”