Amateur in Violence is a collection of mystery stories by the prominent British thriller writer Michael Gilbert, published in the United States in 1973 by Davis Publications, a publishing house for magazines, but not in England.

Gilbert, who was appointed CBE in 1980, was a founder-member of the British Crime Writers' Association.

The Mystery Writers of America named him a Grand Master in 1988[1] and in 1990 he was presented Bouchercon's Lifetime Achievement Award.

It contains 10 stories and a short novel that had been previously uncollected in the United States.

The short novel, "Stay of Execution", had previously given its name to the title of a collection published in England in 1971.