The Man In Evening Clothes is a novel written by John Reed Scott and published in 1917. The story is set in New York City during the early 1900s and revolves around the life of a wealthy businessman named John Burkett Ryder. Ryder is a man of great wealth and power, but his life is turned upside down when he falls in love with a beautiful young woman named Sylvia Landis.Despite the fact that Sylvia is engaged to another man, Ryder is determined to...