The Ancient Company

The Ancient CompanyAlvah Gershon, M.D., specialist in dermatology, had been legally divorced for exactly one day when, from an unknown informant, he received news which implied the possibility of murdering a man he had never met. He had never laid eyes upon the man he might be obliged to kill. So far as he knew, the man had never seen him, nor had reason to.And there were some other peculiar elements with which Dr. Gershon opened his career as a cautious assassin. Would he have been called to fo...