The Face And The Mask By Robert Barr (First American Edition) Robert Barr Mystery

The Face And The Mask by Robert Barr (First American Edition) Bumping and rubbing to corners and spine ends with slight sunning to spine. Previous owner stamp to front pasted end page. Original pictorial green cloth with silver lettering; 250 pages. "Brief short stories, including [a] THE WOMAN OF STONE. Paris. A sentimental crime story, told as an erotic situation. When the woman's lover is taken by the police as a dangerous anarchist, she sees the expression on the face of the statue change from a smile to an image of death. Whoever sees only the smiling side of life sees only part of life. [b} CRANDALL'S CHOICE. A slender modern version of the Judgment of Paris. In Crandall's vision two beautiful women ask him to choose between them. They are health and wealth. He makes the wrong choice. * These two stories are among Barr's weakest work, but the volume also includes "The Doom of London," a well-imagined science fiction story and "The Great Pegram Mystery," a good parody of Sherlock Holmes" (Bleiler).