A review by hordover
The Man in Lower Ten by Mary Roberts Rinehart, Fiction, Mystery & Detective by Mary Roberts Rinehart

4.0

All of Mary Roberts Rinehart books are intimate time capsules. Much like reading Edna Ferber short stories, you get a glimpse into a distant time (turn of the previous century) and place (often Pittsburgh) through the eyes of a woman who pays attention to human nature and also how humans actually live. Tiny details about how lives are lived at the time stand out in her works that I can only attribute to her being a woman with a sharp eye, knife-point wit, and life experiences (e.g., nurse in WWI) that give her a particular/peculiar perspective that enriches both her stories and her readers.