Mask of Flesh-Jack Vance mystery novel, book review
Mask of Flesh-Jack Vance mystery novel AKA: Flesh Mask (author’s preferred title) Take My Face Mask of Flesh is one of Vance’s mystery novels and was written in 1948. It was first published in 1957 with the title Take My Face under the pseudonym of Peter Held. There were two other editions under this title, one in 1958 (under the pseudonym Peter Held) and another in 1988 (under Jack Vance). When it was published as part of the Vance Integral Edition in 2002 it was under Vance's name and was with his preferred title The Flesh Mask. An excellent quality 177 page paperback was issued by Spatterlight Press in 2018, making this once rare book readily available to many Vance fans such as myself who had been eagerly awaiting its release. Although The Flesh Mask is an early Vance work and his primary concern was probably more monetary than literary, this novel is still entertaining and well worth reading. As Michael Andre-Driussi points out in h...