'The Lifted Bandage' is a mystery novel written by Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews. The story unfolds as a man returns home and goes to his library, where he sits on a divan and stares through a window. A servant comes in and tries to take his overcoat, but he is unresponsive. The servant asks if he has had lunch, but the man says he doesn't know and doesn't want anything. The servant then tries to take his overcoat and the man lets him. The man tells the servant that a coroner's jury has decided that his son, Master Jack, is a murderer, but the servant doesn't believe it. The man continues to stare out of the window when a young man in clerical dress enters and asks if he can come in. In shock, the man does not respond.