Two-time Tony and two-time Edgar award winner Rupert Holmes has spent much of his career creating innovative works that frequently fuse mystery and music. As a singer-songwriter, his recording of "Brass Knuckles" became the first pop tune to be reviewed in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, and his lyrics have since been reprinted in several EQMM anthologies. In 1986, he became the first person in theatrical history to singly win Tony awards for both Best Book and Best Score, for his Broadway musical The Mystery of Edwin Drood. He was given identical honors by the New York Drama Desk. His Broadway comedy-thrillers include the Edgar award-winning Accomplice and the Kennedy Center's record-breaking Solitary Confinement. Other plays of comedy and suspense seen on regional stages include Thumbs and his theatrical adaptation of R.L. Stine's internationally best-selling Goosebumps books.

His first novel, Where the Truth Lies, about the dark side of a music and comedy duo, was deemed one of Booklist's Top Ten debut crime novels, received a Nero Wolfe award nomination for Best American Mystery Novel, and was made into a motion picture written and directed by Atom Egoyan and starring Kevin Bacon and Colin Firth. His current mystery novel for Random House, Swing, is set in the nineteen-forties and includes an original Big Band musical score (released on CD with the hard cover edition, now downloadable at www.RupertHolmes.com) containing additional musical clues to the book's solution.

Holmes is also the creator and writer of the Emmy award-winning television series Remember WENN, for which he also provided the musical score. His non-mysteries include the recent Broadway hit, Say Goodnight, Gracie about the life of George Burns—for which Holmes received the 2003 National Broadway Theatre Award for Best Play and yet another Tony nomination in the same category—and the forthcoming stage musical of The First Wives' Club. His latest mix of melody and murder is the musical comedy Curtains, which makes its pre-Broadway debut in 2006 at the Ahmanson Theatre in Los Angeles, featuring a book by Holmes and a score by Broadway legends John Kander and Fred Ebb.

Rupert Holmes began his career as a pop singer-songwriter whose work has been recorded by many of the outstanding vocalists of our time, from opera star Renee Fleming to pop star Britney Spears, from jazz vocalist Cleo Laine to rap artist Wyclef, and most notably and frequently by Barbra Streisand, for whom he has written, arranged and conducted several multi-platinum recordings. Holmes himself has had several top ten gold records as a recording artist and has charted in Billboard's #1 position in the United States, Canada, Australia, and Japan.