A raunchy and comical dinner theater troupe brings murder mysteries to supper time.

The Comical Mystery Tour was created 29 years ago and has performed across the county and beyond.

“We don’t make a lot of money doing it, we just do it because we love to do it,” Ken Adams, the creator of the troupe and one of the actors, said.

The troupe began performing at Chandler’s Restaurant in Yankee Candle weekly and did so for a little over 10 years until the restaurant changed ownership. From there, they had several other local restaurants where they would hold weekly performances. Post-COVID, the group is performing less, but is looking to increase the frequency of their performances.

“We’d love to get a venue or two that can get us back to once a month or once every week even — would be amazing,” Adams said. “But with COVID, everything has changed so much that that’s becoming difficult.”

Adams made his dinner theater debut after graduating from college. He saw a newspaper ad and auditioned. From there, “I fell in love with it,” he said.

Last month, the troupe performed at the Moose Lodge in Greenfield. The performance featured a much-hated boss, a miniature gun designed for hunting bugs, and a secretly-rageful hippy attempting to market her book “Love to Hate Your Way to Love.”

The entire event seemed of a different era. At one point during the show, audience members were provided with an opportunity to fill out ballets guessing who the killer was before the reveal.

“The Comical Mystery Tour’s shows are not for everyone,” the troupe’s website explains. “If you want to see a straight laced ‘who done it,’ you shouldn’t come. If you want to see some flirting, some jokes, some singing and have a lot of laughs, our shows are for you. They have thoughtful humor, but also a lot of slapstick and ‘in your face’ humor. We just want our audience to let go of the thoughts for the day and come along for a ride of laughter with a little intrigue thrown in for kicks.”

Adams added that they also perform for senior centers. “They’re actually some of the most popular ones we do. Because when we flirt — and you know, we’re not raunchy, but we just flirt — they don’t get people to flirt with them anymore so they absolutely love it when we flirt with them.”

“We tell everyone we’re like a PG-13 group,” Adams explained. “So if the audience wants to go there, we go there. If it’s a church, we tone it down a lot … But I won’t say disgusting things, I won’t use profanity, I won’t do disgusting things.”

Last month’s show was written by Hatfield playwright Tim O’Brien. Adams explained that the troupe does not ever purchase plays online, and instead hires all local playwright. “My wife and I have written about 10 different shows, but we get them from all over, people in the Valley.”

More information on the Comical Mystery Tour can be found at thecomicalmysterytour.com.