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The narrator, a pragmatic lawyer, becomes drawn into an investigation after a man's death is discovered in a Pullman car, and a web of circumstantial clues seems to implicate several different people. The story follows the slow unravelling of those clues through train and seaside travel, boarding-house encounters, and a series of personal accounts, including a woman’s revealing testimony. Elements of suspense, mistaken inference, and domestic detail combine as legal reasoning and chance converge to expose motives and resolve romantic and moral complications before the case reaches its unexpected conclusion.

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Title: The Man in Lower Ten

Author: Mary Roberts Rinehart

Release date: August 1, 1999 [eBook #1869]
Most recently updated: May 28, 2021

Language: English

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The Man in Lower Ten

by Mary Roberts Rinehart


Contents

CHAPTER I. I GO TO PITTSBURG
CHAPTER II. A TORN TELEGRAM
CHAPTER III. ACROSS THE AISLE
CHAPTER IV. NUMBERS SEVEN AND NINE
CHAPTER V. THE WOMAN IN THE NEXT CAR
CHAPTER VI. THE GIRL IN BLUE
CHAPTER VII. A FINE GOLD CHAIN
CHAPTER VIII. THE SECOND SECTION
CHAPTER IX. THE HALCYON BREAKFAST
CHAPTER X. MISS WEST’S REQUEST
CHAPTER XI. THE NAME WAS SULLIVAN
CHAPTER XII. THE GOLD BAG
CHAPTER XIII. FADED ROSES
CHAPTER XIV. THE TRAP-DOOR
CHAPTER XV. THE CINEMATOGRAPH
CHAPTER XVI. THE SHADOW OF A GIRL
CHAPTER XVII. AT THE FARM-HOUSE AGAIN
CHAPTER XVIII. A NEW WORLD
CHAPTER XIX. AT THE TABLE NEXT
CHAPTER XX. THE NOTES AND A BARGAIN
CHAPTER XXI. McKNIGHT’S THEORY
CHAPTER XXII. AT THE BOARDING-HOUSE
CHAPTER XXIII. A NIGHT AT THE LAURELS
CHAPTER XXIV. HIS WIFE’S FATHER
CHAPTER XXV. AT THE STATION
CHAPTER XXVI. ON TO RICHMOND
CHAPTER XXVII. THE SEA, THE SAND, THE STARS
CHAPTER XXVIII.ALISON’S STORY
CHAPTER XXIX. IN THE DINING-ROOM
CHAPTER XXX. FINER DETAILS
CHAPTER XXXI. AND ONLY ONE ARM