Mary Roberts Rinehart Books in Order

Spinster Rachel Innes rents a country house for the summer with her niece and nephew, only to face midnight intruders, a bank scandal, and a corpse at the foot of the stairs as she stubbornly investigates to protect her family.

Attorney Lawrence Blakeley boards an overnight train carrying crucial evidence in a forgery case, only to wake after a wreck accused of murdering the man who slept in his berth. With a missing briefcase and a mysterious girl, he must clear his name.

A young lawyer agrees to help when his client’s politician father vanishes after frequenting the notorious White Cat club. The search entangles him with machine politics, blackmail, and murder in a case where no one inside the club is quite what they seem.

Kit McNair agrees to pose as her divorced friend’s wife for one harmless dinner, then a smallpox quarantine traps the whole house party together. Misunderstandings, secret romances, and a missing uncle turn the farce into a very tangled comedy of errors.

Letitia "Tish" Carberry goes into a hospital for a rest cure and promptly stumbles into vanishing corpses, midnight apparitions, and runaway car chases. Told by her anxious friend Lizzie, these linked adventures mix mock ghost-story scares with brisk, very human comedy.

In this country-house story, a gathering meant to settle an inheritance instead exposes simmering resentments, romantic tangles, and a suspicious death. As secrets emerge, one clear-headed observer must decide who is telling the truth about the will and who profits from lies.

During a Pittsburgh flood, boardinghouse keeper Mrs. Pittman finds bloody ropes and a towel in a tenant’s room and believes vaudeville actress Jennie Brice has been murdered. With no body and skeptical police, she investigates herself, uncovering ugly truths about a bad marriage.

Hired to care for two small children in an uneasy household, nurse Anne Adams finds locked rooms, a vanished governess, and terrified servants. As rumors of plague and rats swirl, she realizes someone will do anything to keep certain doors closed and certain secrets buried.

Recovering from illness, young doctor Leslie goes to sea as ship’s physician on a luxurious yacht. A pleasure cruise turns into nightmare when passengers are hacked to death one stormy night, and Leslie must survive long enough to learn who is wielding the ax.

Young nurse Hilda Adams is given charge of a delirious patient whose mysterious buckled bag never leaves his side. When he dies suddenly and the bag vanishes, Hilda’s curiosity draws her into a dangerous hunt for what was hidden inside and why it was worth killing for.

Violinist Harmony Wells is studying in Vienna when her money runs out. Sharing cramped lodgings with an idealistic doctor, a world-weary older physician, and an orphaned boy, she must choose between love, duty, and her art as war and hardship edge ever closer.

In a crowded Pittsburgh boardinghouse, straightforward nurse Sidney Page takes in a quiet lodger known only as K. The mysterious stranger’s past, and his hidden skill as a surgeon, slowly come to light as scandal, crime, and romance swirl around the house.

This nonfiction account follows Rinehart to the World War I front as a reporter, visiting trenches and field hospitals and interviewing rulers and soldiers. Her vivid sketches capture the shock of modern war and plead for Americans to grasp its human cost.

Teenager Bab Archibald, a self-styled "sub-deb," lurches from crushes to catastrophes as she tries to act sophisticated before her first real season. Written in Bab’s breathless diary voice, the story pokes fun at flapper-era manners, romance, and family drama.

Rinehart’s lively travelogue recounts a 300-mile horseback trip through the brand-new Glacier National Park with guide Howard Eaton. She describes high passes, camp life, wildlife, and fellow tourists with a reporter’s eye and a humorist’s timing.

This first Tish collection follows middle-aged Letitia Carberry and her friends Aggie and Lizzie through motorcar chases, camping mishaps, amateur spying, and wartime schemes. The stories blend slapstick adventure with a warm look at female friendship and late-blooming independence.

In a small European kingdom, young Crown Prince Ferdinand William Otto slips away from court one night and tastes ordinary life. His brief adventure becomes entangled with plots, love affairs, and looming war, forcing the boy to grow into the ruler his country needs.

This brief, patriotic nonfiction piece addresses American mothers as the United States moves toward entering World War I, reflecting on sacrifice, love of country, and what it means to give sons to military service.

In this sequel to Through Glacier Park, Rinehart chronicles a long pack-train trip through the Rockies and Cascades with her family. Camp mishaps, spectacular scenery, and encounters with Western characters make the journey as entertaining as any of her fiction.

Small-town Sara Lee Kennedy leaves her Pennsylvania home to run a canteen near the Belgian front during World War I. Torn between her fiancé’s demands and the soldiers who depend on her, she discovers a deeper courage and a quieter, more complicated kind of love.

Sergeant Gray wins a brief leave from camp and a bet that he can have breakfast with a general. A chance meeting with a girl, a fistfight, and Army red tape nearly wreck his day off in this light, affectionate wartime comedy.

Set in an American steel town on the eve of World War I, this novel follows engineer Clayton Spencer and his socialite wife Natalie as war and industrial unrest expose the cracks in their marriage, their friendships, and their comfortable view of class and duty.

This collection gathers novellas about nurses, patients, and ordinary people whose lives are jolted by love. Rinehart balances hospital detail and social observation with hopeful endings that show romance tangled with work, war, and family responsibility.

In a smoky industrial city, wealthy Natalie Spencer and thoughtful reformer Clayton Spencer are caught up in labor unrest, radical politics, and romantic turmoil. The story mixes love story and social novel as a strike threatens to destroy both family and town.

Five witty stories about well-to-do Americans and Englishwomen whose flirtations, borrowed houses, and social schemes go amusingly wrong. Beneath the light tone, Rinehart explores marriage, loyalty, and the small selfishnesses that can upset a seemingly settled life.

Two humorous pieces in which Rinehart plays with the clichés men and women use about each other. Through exaggerated anecdotes and sharp dialogue, she gently mocks the idea that either sex can be summed up in a single, exasperated saying.

Set in a medieval castle at Christmastime, this short novel tells how young Clotilde, daughter of Lord Charles the Fair, intervenes in a bitter feud. Her courage helps bring about a fragile holiday peace between sworn enemies.

Further adventures of Tish, Aggie, and Lizzie take them from wartime service to peacetime camping trips, walking tours, and patriotic schemes. Their plans are always too ambitious, their results chaotic, and their loyalty to one another unshakable.

During a séance in an old house, a stunt meant to expose fake spiritualism unexpectedly revives a real, unsolved murder. Eerie events follow as the narrator unravels who among the guests has killed before and is willing to kill again.

A middle-aged woman takes a quiet house in the country only to find it haunted by a written confession left by the previous tenant. As storm and blackout isolate the household, past sins and a long-buried crime come violently to the surface.

In a Wyoming community, a respected country doctor hides a troubled past linked to a vanished man and a shooting years earlier. When a new crime echoes the old scandal, he must decide whether to sacrifice his hard-won life to set the record straight.

This short volume gathers Rinehart’s sketches of Western ranches and mountain camps, mixing trail mishaps and frontier characters with her reflections on why wide open spaces and hard travel keep drawing people back.

Stories about high-strung husbands, moody wives, and the small explosions that upset polite households. Rinehart balances wit and sympathy as she shows how pride, jealousy, and stubbornness can undo even well-meant marriages.

Professor William Porter inherits a seaside estate whose previous owner died under odd circumstances. Strange visions in a red-shaded lamp, slaughtered sheep, and a chain of violent deaths leave him unsure whether the killer is human, ghost, or something in between.

Part travel book and part meditation, this narrative follows Rinehart on camel and horseback through desert landscapes. She describes camps, guides, and ancient sites while reflecting on hospitality, cultural encounters, and the odd freedom of a life that keeps moving.

In this novelization of the hit play, adventurous spinster Cornelia Van Gorder rents a country house tied to a missing fortune and a corrupt banker. As a masked criminal known as the Bat stalks the grounds, hidden rooms and false identities complicate every clue.

In this Tish volume, Letitia Carberry takes up golf to help a lovesick young couple, then plunges into schemes involving baby blimps, bootleggers, and treasure hunts. Her well-intended interference leaves chaos behind but usually nudges people toward unexpectedly happy endings.

This romantic novel centers on a young woman torn between a safe, conventional life and the pull of an intense past love in the American West. Ranch life, money, and jealousy turn her choice into a matter of loyalty, freedom, and survival.

A young woman accepts an impulsive proposal that carries her far from home into a marriage she barely understands. Faced with betrayal, scandal, and the shadow of crime, she must decide what kind of life counts as an adventure worth keeping.

Bond salesman Howard Warrington rents a room with three Bayne women in a respectable city house. As he observes their loneliness, frustrated hopes, and mounting despair, a suspected suicide forces him to face how poisonous the atmosphere upstairs has become.

These linked stories look at men and women who still think of themselves as romantic long after youth has passed. Rinehart teases them gently as they chase old dreams, stumble into new loves, and sometimes pay a high price for refusing to grow up.

In Elizabeth Bell’s well-run house, small oddities—a burnt desk, a glimpse of a prowler—lead up to the brutal murder of the nurse who walked the dogs. When police say the killer must be an insider, Elizabeth fears what may be hidden behind her own doors.

Rinehart’s autobiography traces her life from Pittsburgh childhood and nursing school through sudden bestsellerdom, war reporting, Hollywood and Broadway ventures, family joys, illnesses, and the hazards of fame. Candid and anecdotal, it shows how closely her fiction drew on real experience.

In this Hilda Adams case, better known under an alternate title, the nurse-detective is drawn into a puzzle where every major suspect has a perfect alibi. Untangling their stories forces her to question memories, timing, and how far fear can twist the truth.

Special duty nurse Hilda Adams is sent to care for an elderly woman whose nephew has apparently died by suicide in a gloomy mansion. Secretly working for the police, Hilda prowls dark corridors, eavesdrops on quarrels, and wonders which member of the household is a killer.

On Crescent Place, a seemingly quaint cul-de-sac, five old houses hide decades of grudges and secrets. When a bedridden old woman is axed to death, the neighborhood becomes a closed circle of suspects whose faces and histories are recorded in one very revealing photograph album.

Beautiful Elinor Norton has confessed to killing a man yet refuses to defend herself in court. As her oldest friend pieces together the story of her loveless marriage, consuming affair, and impossible choice, the question becomes what really happened the night of the shooting.

Following a young physician from medical school into practice, this novel looks at professional ambition, family expectations, and the cost of devotion to patients. Romance and a suspicious death test both his ethics and his courage.

Ten stories about marriages under strain, from comic domestic standoffs to dark tales of spouses driven to murder. Rinehart dissects the bargains couples make and what happens when jealousy, pride, or pure meanness push them past endurance.

Older but no wiser, Tish, Aggie, and Lizzie plunge into late-life causes, from small-town reform to wartime volunteering. Their overzealous tactics land them in scrapes with officials and neighbors, yet they usually blunder their way into doing some good.

On a fashionable New England island, Marcia Lloyd hopes for a peaceful summer at her family estate until her brother’s glamorous, grasping ex-wife arrives. When the woman is murdered, gossip and old grudges make almost every neighbor look like a plausible suspect.

Pat Abbott’s glamorous cousin Maud fills her estate with hangers-on and potential lovers, while Pat falls for a married man and senses danger in the air. Attempts on Maud’s life, a past scandal, and a shocking murder turn careless romance into deadly business.

This collection of stories revisits everyday types Rinehart’s readers thought they knew: gossipy neighbors, overbearing relatives, worried parents, and quiet office workers. Each tale twists a familiar figure into an unexpectedly sharp portrait, sometimes tinged with crime.

Nurse-detective Hilda Adams is sent to protect wealthy Eliza Fairbanks, who insists that bats, birds, and poisoned sugar are part of a plot to kill her. In a household full of greedy relatives, a locked-room stabbing proves the danger is very real.

Centered on the title story, this collection features women who find themselves entangled with murder investigations, dubious lovers, and dangerous secrets. Rinehart focuses less on puzzle-clues than on the emotional pressure that can twist an alibi.

Anne Collier is certain her abusive husband wants her dead. When he is fatally shot and their little boy disappears, Anne is accused of murder. From her hospital bed she fights to prove she is not a killer while her lawyer uncovers what really happened.

During World War II, Carol Spencer goes to her family’s empty summer house in Maine and discovers a woman’s burned body hidden in a closet. As suspicion falls on her, she must uncover the victim’s identity and the killer before scandal destroys her family.

In this late novel, Rinehart returns to themes of aging, memory, and second chances. A woman looking back on a lifetime of choices confronts old fears and one unresolved death when a familiar light appears again in a long-watched window.

A quiet suburban gathering explodes in horror when a woman is stabbed and the murder weapon seems to vanish. When the same knife turns up in a second body, Hilda Adams is drawn into a cat-and-mouse game with a killer who keeps moving the evidence.

Sisters Lois and Judith Chandler live at their decaying estate, the Birches, burdened by their father’s suicide and old scandals. Judith’s nervous collapse, a dead woman in the pool who looks eerily like her, and family secrets give novelist Lois the most dangerous plot of her life.

This later collection expands on the novella The Frightened Wife with additional tales of domestic murder, blackmail, and quietly desperate people pushed past their limits. Each story offers a compact, character-driven mystery with a sting in its tail.

This omnibus gathers some of the funniest Tish stories, showcasing Letitia Carberry’s passion for causes, reckless schemes, and unexpected heroics. It is an ideal sampler of her car chases, camping disasters, and last-minute rescues.