The Man In Lower Ten

Mary Roberts Rinehart

Feb 2015 · Sold by HarperCollins

About this ebook

A routine business trip goes awry when attorney Lawrence Blakeley finds himself accused of murder. Knowing himself innocent, Blakeley’s explanations are complicated by his attraction to a beautiful young woman with her own motive for murder, and the sudden derailment of his train.

Mary Roberts Rinehart’s The Man in Lower Ten was enormously successful upon publication, and was one of the first detective novels to become a bestseller.

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About the author

Often referred to as the American Agatha Christie, Mary Roberts Rinehart was an American journalist and writer who is best known for the murder mystery The Circular Staircase—considered to have started the “Had-I-but-known” school of mystery writing—and the popular Tish mystery series. A prolific writer, Rinehart was originally educated as a nurse, but turned to writing as a source of income after the 1903 stock market crash. Although primarily a fiction writer, Rinehart served as the Saturday Evening Post’s correspondent for from the Belgian front during the First World War, and later published a series of travelogues and an autobiography. Roberts died in New York City in 1958.