Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Corridors of Death | 1982 | Ruth Dudley Edwards | Buy |
| 2 | The Saint Valentine’s Day Murders | 1984 | Ruth Dudley Edwards | Buy |
| 3 | The English School of Murder | 1990 | Ruth Dudley Edwards | Buy |
| 4 | The School of English Murder | 1990 | Ruth Dudley Edwards | N/A |
| 5 | Clubbed to Death | 1992 | Ruth Dudley Edwards | Buy |
| 6 | Matricide at St. Martha’s | 1995 | Ruth Dudley Edwards | Buy |
| 7 | Ten Lords A-Leaping | 1996 | Ruth Dudley Edwards | Buy |
| 8 | Murder in a Cathedral | 1997 | Ruth Dudley Edwards | Buy |
| 9 | Publish and Be Murdered | 1999 | Ruth Dudley Edwards | Buy |
| 10 | The Anglo-Irish Murders: A Robert Amiss/Baroness Jack Troutbeck Mystery #9 | 1981 | Ruth Dudley Edwards | N/A |
| 11 | The Anglo-Irish Murders | 2000 | Ruth Dudley Edwards | Buy |
| 12 | Carnage on the Committee | 2004 | Ruth Dudley Edwards | Buy |
| 13 | Murdering Americans | 2007 | Ruth Dudley Edwards | Buy |
| 14 | Killing the Emperors | 2012 | Ruth Dudley Edwards | Buy |
| 15 | Killing the Emperors: ‘Hilariously un-PC’ The Times | 2012 | Ruth Dudley Edwards | N/A |
The Robert Amiss series by Ruth Dudley Edwards consists of twelve mystery novels published between 1982 and 2012. Robert Amiss is a former civil servant who keeps finding himself in the middle of murders at various British institutions. Each book targets a different establishment for satirical treatment: Corridors of Death (1982) takes on the civil service, The Saint Valentine’s Day Murders (1984) covers a gentleman’s club, and Matricide at St. Martha’s (1995) skewers a Cambridge women’s college.
From the fifth book onward, Baroness Jack Troutbeck joins the cast as Amiss’s larger-than-life ally. She is blunt, politically incorrect, and endlessly entertaining. The series was shortlisted several times for the CWA Last Laugh Award, which Edwards won in 2008 for Murdering Americans.