A routine business trip goes awry when attorney Lawrence Blakeley finds himself accused of murder. Knowing himself innocent, Blakeley's explanations are complicated by his attraction to a beautiful young woman with her own motive for murder, and the sudden derailment of his train.

Mary Roberts Rinehart's The Man in Lower Ten was enormously successful upon publication, and was one of the first detective novels to become a bestseller.

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