The Face and the Mask

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.