A Paper Mask — John Collee

Matthew Harris, a bored and dissatisfied London hospital orderly, thinks he can do as well as the doctors he observes. Suddenly he has a chance to try.

Just before Dr. Simon Hennessey died in a motorcycle accident, he had applied for an emergency-room position in distant Bristol. Matthew assumes the doctor's identity-and his new job.

In scenes of nerve-racking suspense, Matthew pretends to be a doctor-annd recklessly walks the line dividing life from death. Only one woman, a warm and capable nurse, stands between the phony physician and the unmasking of his lethal charade....