The Man in Lower Ten
Unabridged Large Print Edition
by Mary Roberts Rinehart
The Man in Lower Ten…
“McKnight is gradually taking over the criminal end of the business. I never liked it, and 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 car Ontario, between Washington and Pittsburg, on the night of September ninth, last…”
And so begins “The Man in Lower Ten,” the first of Mary Roberts Rinehart’s many classic mystery tales. Rinehart’s characteristically complex plot twists and turns through a series of mysterious events, featuring forged documents, embezzlement, theft, a murder, mysterious intruders, an awkward romantic triangle, and, right in the middle of it all, an attorney whose average, everyday, uneventful life is disrupted when he becomes the victim, the suspect, and the sleuth … all at the same time.
This quality large print volume is not a machine scan or reproduction. Prepared by human editors this edition includes the complete and unabridged original classic version of Mary Roberts Rinehart’s The Man in Lower Ten in a freshly edited and newly formatted edition printed on heavyweight bright white paper with a fully laminated cover. By slightly increasing the page size along with the font size we are able to reduce printing costs and make this complete, unabridged large print edition available at reasonable cost.
Also included in this edition are a detailed biographical sketch discussing the life and work of author Mary Roberts Rinehart and footnotes, added sparingly, to assist the reader with particularly unusual words or usages.
Mary Roberts Rinehart
Mary Roberts Rinehart (1876-1958) was a popular and successful American writer best known for her mysteries. Sometimes referred to as “the American Agatha Christie,” Rinehart’s first mystery novel actually appeared over a decade before Christie’s. She is considered the originator of the “Had-I-But-Known” style of mystery, where a character fails to realize the importance of an early clue, as well as the source of the phrase “The butler did it”.in a story where, ironically, the butler did do it, but the phrase was never uttered by any character.
Rinehart served in Britain as a war correspondent during WWI and, in addition to writing several best-selling books she was a regular and popular contributor to the Saturday Evening Post. She used this platform to disclose her personal battle with breast cancer, a subject rarely discussed in public at the time, in a widely read “Ladies Home Journal” interview, urging women to begin regular examinations and effectively launching the modern screening movement in the U.S.
Product details
Publisher: Apex Publications, Independently published (February 25, 2024)
Language: English
Paperback: 261 pages
ISBN: 979-8880372560
Item Weight: 1.32 pounds
Dimensions: 7.44 x 0.59 x 9.69 inches
List Price: $15.97
