The Brown Mask

The Brown Mask is an adventure novel written by Percy James Brebner, a British author of adventure and detective fiction and the author of "Princess Maritza," "Vayenne," "A Royal Ward".

Excerpts:

Dismal in appearance, the painted sign over the mean doorway almost obliterated by time and weather, there was nothing attractive about the "Punch-Bowl" tavern in Clerkenwell. It was hidden away at the end of a narrow alley, making no effort to vaunt its existence to the world at large, and to many persons, even in the near neighbourhood, it was entirely unknown. Like a gentleman to whom debauchery has brought shame and the desire to conceal himself from his fellows, so the "Punch-Bowl" seemed an outcast amongst taverns.