Mary Roberts Rinehart

The Man in Lower Ten (Illustrated) Mary Roberts Rinehart

The Man in Lower Ten is the first book ever written by Mary Roberts Rinehart, arguably the greatest American mystery writer of her generation. Vividly imagined, it combines adventure, suspense, horror, and mystery at breakneck speed. The first detective novel to appear on national bestseller lists. Lawrence, attorney-in-law, on his way to deliver valuable documents of a criminal case, wakes up (in a train) on the wrong side of the bed, in the wrong bed, with the wrong clothes and suitcase, the victim of a frame-up. Blakely knows that he has to find the real criminal before his almost-certain arrest: only, sadly, our hero is not the standard tough-guy hero.