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Rupert Holmes Books in Order

Rupert Holmes has written 4 books, published between 1991 and 2023. The first book is Accomplice (1991) and the newest is Murder Your Employer (2023). Publication order is the reading order below.

Books
4
Published
1991–2023
Pages on record
940 in 3 of 4 books
Reading time
16–24 hours

Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 940 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 3 of 4 titles with a page count on record.

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Rupert Holmes is a British-born American dramatist and author, and a former composer, singer-songwriter and music producer. The singles Escape (The Piña Colada Song) from 1979 and Him from 1980, the musicals The Mystery of Edwin Drood, which earned two Tony Awards, and Curtains, and the television series Remember WENN sit outside the book catalogue. That catalogue holds 4 titles: Accomplice (1991), Where the Truth Lies (2003), Swing, also published as The Musician's Daughter (2005), and Murder Your Employer: The McMasters Guide to Homicide (2023).

How many Rupert Holmes books are there?

Rupert Holmes has 4 books, released between 1991 and 2023. 1 of them belong to the McMasters Guide To Homicide series.

Rupert Holmes Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 4 Rupert Holmes books in the order they were published, with the release year, the page count where one is on record, and how many independent book listings confirm each title. Catalogue data as of September 2026.

  1. Cover of Accomplice by Rupert Holmes (1991)
  2. Cover of Where the Truth Lies by Rupert Holmes (2003)
  3. Cover of Swing / The Musician's Daughter by Rupert Holmes (2005)
  4. Cover of Murder Your Employer by Rupert Holmes, book 1 of the McMasters Guide To Homicide series (2023)
  1. 1
    Accomplice1991 · 124 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1991124
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  2. 2
    Where the Truth Lies2003 · 432 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2003432
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  3. 3
    Swing / The Musician's Daughter2005 · 384 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2005384
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  4. 4
    Murder Your EmployerMcMasters Guide To Homicide #12023 · confirmed 1/4
    2023–
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK

Rupert Holmes books grouped by series

Each title below is a row in the publication-order table above. None of these groups has a reading-order page of its own on this site.

McMasters Guide To Homicide in order

1 book
  1. 1. Murder Your Employer

Standalone books

3 books

3 Rupert Holmes titles here are not listed as part of any series.

Do you have to read Rupert Holmes books in order?

You only need to read Rupert Holmes books in order within the McMasters Guide To Homicide series, which holds 1 of the 4 Rupert Holmes books listed here. The numbered table above gives every book in publication order.

Where to start with Rupert Holmes

Start with Accomplice (1991), the earliest published title.

What is the newest Rupert Holmes book?

Murder Your Employer (2023) is the newest Rupert Holmes book released so far.

Is there a new Rupert Holmes book coming?

No next Rupert Holmes book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.

Rupert Holmes at a glance

Paused
No new Rupert Holmes title has appeared for 3 years. The last was published in 2023.
Release pace
Rupert Holmes books have appeared about one every 11 years on average.
Length
940 pages across the 3 of 4 books with a recorded length, a median of 384 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most Rupert Holmes books, 2 of 4, were published in the 2000s.

What the Rupert Holmes books are about

All 4 Rupert Holmes books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. No subject is tagged on more than one of them, so each one below describes a single book. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.