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* SuicideNotMurder: [[spoiler:Peter's killer was none other than himself.]]
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Gabe Tremont is a man in a rut. He's just retired from his job as a detective for the police department of Bearcrest, Colorado, and he's going out of his mind with boredom. In order to cheer him up, his wife Angie takes him to the Bearcrest Mystery Playhouse to see a murder mystery play. All is fine, if not a bit cheesy, when the butler collapses. Unfortunately, the butler isn't acting, and there's been a real murder. With the department's usual detectives out for their own reasons, Gabe is brought in to work the case. It's now up to Tremont to solve the mystery... that, and the mystery of what he's going to do when he actually retires.
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Gabe Tremont is a man in a rut. He's just retired from his job as a detective for the police department of Bearcrest, Colorado, and he's going out of his mind with boredom. In order to cheer him up, his wife Angie takes him to the Bearcrest Mystery Playhouse to see a murder mystery play. All is fine, if not a bit cheesy, when the butler Peter Ranchard collapses. Unfortunately, the butler isn't acting, and there's been a real murder. With the department's usual detectives out for their own reasons, Gabe is brought in to work the case. It's now up to Tremont to solve the mystery... that, and the mystery of what he's going to do when he actually retires.
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* TheButlerDidIt: Inverted both InUniverse for the play and the book itself, as the butler is the one who dies. [[spoiler:Then it ends up getting played straight, as Peter actually killed himself.]]
* FrameUp: [[spoiler:Peter]] put out clues on each of the castmates and Helen [[spoiler:as part of his ultimate performance.]]
* MadArtist: [[spoiler:Peter Ranchard, who killed himself and made it look like a murder as a sort of last performance.]]
* RetiredBadass: Gabe was a stellar detective, but it's more like "Trying to ''be'' Retired" Badass.
* FrameUp: [[spoiler:Peter]] put out clues on each of the castmates and Helen [[spoiler:as part of his ultimate performance.]]
* MadArtist: [[spoiler:Peter Ranchard, who killed himself and made it look like a murder as a sort of last performance.]]
* RetiredBadass: Gabe was a stellar detective, but it's more like "Trying to ''be'' Retired" Badass.
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[[caption-width-right:350:Enjoy the show. It's a killer.]]
''Mystery of the Dinner Playhouse'' is a 2015 mystery book by Mike Befeler.
Gabe Tremont is a man in a rut. He's just retired from his job as a detective for the police department of Bearcrest, Colorado, and he's going out of his mind with boredom. In order to cheer him up, his wife Angie takes him to the Bearcrest Mystery Playhouse to see a murder mystery play. All is fine, if not a bit cheesy, when the butler collapses. Unfortunately, the butler isn't acting, and there's been a real murder. With the department's usual detectives out for their own reasons, Gabe is brought in to work the case. It's now up to Tremont to solve the mystery... that, and the mystery of what he's going to do when he actually retires.
!''Mystery of the Dinner Playhouse'' contains examples of the following tropes:
* AssholeVictim: Peter was a drug dealer, a blackmailer, and a womanizer.
* BitterAlmonds: Gabe recognizes the scent, and sure enough, the autopsy reveals the poison to be cyanide.
* TamoperingWithFoodAndDrink: Peter is killed from his wine glass laced with cyanide.
[[caption-width-right:350:Enjoy the show. It's a killer.]]
''Mystery of the Dinner Playhouse'' is a 2015 mystery book by Mike Befeler.
Gabe Tremont is a man in a rut. He's just retired from his job as a detective for the police department of Bearcrest, Colorado, and he's going out of his mind with boredom. In order to cheer him up, his wife Angie takes him to the Bearcrest Mystery Playhouse to see a murder mystery play. All is fine, if not a bit cheesy, when the butler collapses. Unfortunately, the butler isn't acting, and there's been a real murder. With the department's usual detectives out for their own reasons, Gabe is brought in to work the case. It's now up to Tremont to solve the mystery... that, and the mystery of what he's going to do when he actually retires.
!''Mystery of the Dinner Playhouse'' contains examples of the following tropes:
* AssholeVictim: Peter was a drug dealer, a blackmailer, and a womanizer.
* BitterAlmonds: Gabe recognizes the scent, and sure enough, the autopsy reveals the poison to be cyanide.
* TamoperingWithFoodAndDrink: Peter is killed from his wine glass laced with cyanide.
