Rupert Holmes reading and booksigning for Swing Thursday, March 24th at 7:00 pm @ The Booksmith (1644 Haight Street in San Francisco)
In Rupert Holmes' new novel, Swing, music and mystery go hand in hand. Set in the San Francisco Bay Area in 1940, this is a story of a murder at the Golden Gate International Exposition. It is also the story of Ray, a big-band musician who gets drawn into a complex mystery that will require all his nerve and improvisational ingenuity. Swing is accompanied by a CD, (with music written by the Grammy and Tony Award winning author), which contains clues to the solution of the book's seductive mystery.
Rupert Holmes is a man of many accomplishments. Twice a recipient of the Mystery Writers of America's coveted Edgar Award, Holmes' first novel, Where The Truth Lies, has been made into a major motion picture by director Atom Egoyan starring Kevin Bacon, Colin Firth, and Alison Lohman. Holmes' Broadway musical, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, won five Tony Awards. He also created and wrote all four seasons of the Emmy Award-winning television series Remember WENN. In the 1980's, he scored a smash hit with "Escape (The Pina Colada Song)." And let's not forget that infamous 1970's hit about cannibalism in a mine shaft, "Timothy".
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