Now updated for modern readers like you!This new edition of the classic bestseller, The Man in Lower Ten, has been completely re-written so that the style is contemporary and easy-to-read while still preserving Mary Roberts Rinehart’s distinctive tone. Also included in this edition are short paragraphs at the beginning of chapters briefly explaining any references that you might find confusing.

Kazabo Modern Reader Editions: Making classic mysteries fun again!"The man lying in lower ten was on his back, his face illuminated by the early morning sun. But the light had no effect on him.

A small red stain marred the front of his pajamas and trailed across the sheet. His half-open eyes stared blankly at the wood above, unseeing.

"Washington D. C.

, 1907. What should have been a quick train trip for attorney Lawrence Blakeley, becomes a nightmare when a man is murdered in the berth that he was assigned to, and - to make things worse - shortly after the discovery, the train is wrecked.

Blakeley is forced to solve the murder to prove his innocence, in a tour de force combining breakneck adventure, suspense, horror, mystery and romance, that keeps readers guessing at the edge of their seats. ABOUT THE AUTHORMary Roberts Rinehart (1876-1958) was perhaps the most beloved and best-selling American mystery writer in the first half of the twentieth century.

Rinehart had a string of successes, beginning with The Circular Staircase in 1906. Her second book, The Man in Lower Ten, was a huge hit and remains in print to this day.

By the time she died in 1958 – her last novel, The Swimming Pool, was published in 1952 – she had published three dozen novels and numerous other works. Rinehart was often called “the American Agatha Christie” but that hardly seems fair.

If anything, Agatha Christie, who began writing 15 years later, was the British Mary Roberts Rinehart. .