The Face and the Mask

Description

The Face and the Mask is a book by Scottish-Canadian author Robert Barr, first published in 1894. It is a collection of twenty-four short stories: The Woman Of Stone; The Chemistry Of Anarchy; The Fear Of It; The Metamorphoses Of Johnson; The Reclamation Of Joe Hollends; The Type-Written Letter; The Doom Of London; The Predicament Of De Plonville; A New Explosive; The Great Pegram Mystery (a parody of Sherlock Holmes, with a detective called Sherlaw Kombs); Death Cometh Soon Or Late; High Stakes; Where Ignorance Is Bliss; The Departure Of Cub Mclean; Old Number Eighty-Six; Playing With Marked Cards; The Bruiser's Courtship; The Raid On Mellish; Striking Back; Crandall's Choice; The Failure Of Bradley; Ringamy's Convert; A Slippery Customer; and, The Sixth Bench.

This book has 71,055 words, 129 pages in the PDF version, and was originally published in 1894.

Production notes: This ebook of The Face and the Mask was published by Global Grey in 2018, and updated on the 17th December 2023. The artwork used for the cover is 'Living room with the artist's sister' by Adolph Menzel.