The Man in Lower Ten

by Mary Roberts Rinehart

Book Overview

Since the strange case of the man in lower ten, I have been a bit squeamish. Given a case like that, where you can build up a network of clues that absolutely incriminate three entirely different people, only one of whom can be guilty, and your faith in circumstantial evidence dies of overcrowding. I never see a shivering, white-faced wretch in the prisoners' dock that I do not hark back with shuddering horror to the strange events on the Pullman...

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0821731041
• ISBN13: 9780821731048
• Release Date: January 1990
• Publisher: Zebra Books
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 4.2" x 6.9"

Customer Reviews

A classic by America's queen of mystery writers

Mary Roberts Rinehart was the American Agatha Christie. Both were great mystery writers. While Christie was justifibly famous for her ingeneous plots, in my opinion Rinehart was the better writer. Furthermore, Rinehart had an uncanny ability to create and sustain throughout each of her books an atmosphere not merely of suspense but of foreboding. Although reading a Rinehart novel is great fun, it is also rather scary. Her first mystery novel, The Man in Lower Ten, had such an impact that, after its publication, many people would not ride in the lower ten berth in Pullman cars in the days of railroad travel. If you like well-written mystery novels that make you want to keep the door locked while you read them, read The Man in Lower Ten, and all of Mary Roberts Rinehart's other classics.