Goodspeed Musicals welcomes Tony award-winning playwright, composer and lyricist Rupert Holmes for a talkback and to sign his New York Times best-selling mystery novel, “Murder Your Employer,” between performances of “The Mystery of Edwin Drood” at The Goodspeed in East Haddam.

Holmes will hold the talkback at 4:45 p.m. Wednesday, after the 2 p.m. matinee performance.

He will sign books immediately following. He will also sign books from 6:30-7:15 p.m., before the 7:30 p.m. performance.

The public is welcome to attend the talkback and book signing if they do not have tickets for the performances. Books will be available for purchase at the event.

“Murder Your Employer” reached #6 on the New York Times’ best-selling hardcover fiction list and #1 on Barnes and Noble’s Bestseller List, was one of their Top Ten Mysteries of 2023, and was one of Amazon’s Best 50 Books of 2023.

It is the Barnes and Noble Mystery Pick of May. The audiobook read by Neil Patrick Harris has been at #1 or in the vicinity for over a year at Amazon, and was nominated for an Audie award for Best Mystery Audiobook.

Holmes was the first person to singly win Tony Awards for book, music and lyrics of a musical, this for “The Mystery of Edwin Drood,” which also won the Tony for Best Musical in 1986.

He has written, arranged and conducted platinum recordings for Barbra Streisand and is a pop songwriter of Top 40 recordings including his own #1 hit “Escape (The Pina Colada Song).”

“The Mystery of Edwin Drood” is playing at the Goodspeed in East Haddam through June 2. Call (860) 873-8668 or visit goodspeed.org for tickets.