LOCAL playwright, Derek Webb, is serving up another great comedy - being performed by Clarbeston Road Players at three Pembrokeshire venues in the next few weeks. Called 'Agatha Crusty and the Murder Mystery Dinner', it features the eponymous Agatha Crusty -crime novelist and amateur detective as she gets to grips with another case of multiple murders.

The first Agatha Crusty comedy 'Agatha Crusty and the Village Hall Murders' premiered in Pembrokeshire two years ago and has proved enormously popular with already more than 30 productions - and many dozens of performances - throughout the UK, in Australia and the US.

In this, the latest comedy, Geoffrey and Caroline Robertson are having a dinner party to celebrate 10 successful years of Mighty Midget Vacuum Cleaners, the company he jointly owns with Tim McArthur, and to add spice to the evening they decide to make it a murder mystery dinner. They are joined by a variety of employees and their partners. And Geoffrey has a special surprise - he has invited the well-known crime novelist Agatha Crusty to join them. She is in the area promoting her latest book and agrees to be guest of honour.

But on the evening of the dinner, their remote Victorian house finds itself in the centre of a storm so bad that the river floods and they are cut off. Worse, the power fails and in the darkness one of the guests is murdered. But since everybody else was together when the murder was committed, they are as perplexed as they are worried. And when another murder happens in the same way it is no laughing matter... except this is an Agatha Crusty murder mystery, so there are laughs a-plenty. And also a genuine mystery that will keep an audience guessing as well as laughing.

Agatha Crusty and the Murder Mystery Dinner opens at Clarbeston Road Memorial Hall on April 23 and 24. It then goes on to Theatr Gwaun in Fishguard on April 25 and the Queens Hall in Narberth on May 9.