About This Book
We all prepare a mask for all the masks we meet every day. Can anyone really tell what is behind those masks? Was the sadistic Arthur in The Golden Omega, really the angel his mask depicted? Was his daughter Elena, deceiver of all the men she had ever been with, married or not, really the charmer her mask suggested? Or was Eben, the millionaire, in spite of his connection with the Chicago mob, as cultivated and generous as his mask proclaimed? Was violent bully Corporal Burt, in ‘Nig-Nog,’ really the beast he boasted about? In The Tower was Too High, were the three spinster sisters, really closet homicidal maniacs? Was Johann, the ex-pat fugitive poet, the only truth-teller in the land? Or was it Private Larry Smythe because he slept with his eyes open? All were not as they seemed, especially Ally in The Man in the Scottish Lunatic Asylum, who wore the timely mask of derangement so naturally. But what were their real natures? Among the steep valleys and ski slopes of Switzerland, discover, story by story, the real truths behind the masks.
