Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Love Stories | 1919 | Mary Roberts Rinehart | Buy |
| 2 | Affinities and Other Stories | 1920 | Mary Roberts Rinehart | Buy |
| 3 | Sight Unseen | 1921 | Mary Roberts Rinehart | Buy |
| 4 | Temperamental People | 1924 | Mary Roberts Rinehart | Buy |
| 5 | The Romantics | 1929 | Mary Roberts Rinehart | Buy |
| 6 | Married People | 1937 | Mary Roberts Rinehart | Buy |
| 7 | Familiar Faces: Stories of People You Know | 1941 | Mary Roberts Rinehart | Buy |
| 8 | Alibi for Isabel and Other Stories | 1944 | Mary Roberts Rinehart | Buy |
| 9 | The Frightened Wife | 1944 | Mary Roberts Rinehart | Buy |
| 10 | The Frightened Wife and Other Murder Stories | 1953 | Mary Roberts Rinehart | Buy |
| 11 | Mary Roberts Rinehart’s Collected Works | 2014 | Mary Roberts Rinehart | Buy |
Mary Roberts Rinehart’s eleven short story collections span from Love Stories (1919) to a 2014 collected works edition. The collections draw from decades of magazine publication, primarily in The Saturday Evening Post and other popular periodicals. Rinehart was one of the highest-paid magazine writers of her era, and these collections preserve work that originally reached millions of readers.
The titles range from mystery-focused collections like The Frightened Wife to broader fiction like Temperamental People and Married People. A 2014 collected works edition compiles selections from across her career for modern readers.