The Alfriston Quartet

Summary

Elderly retired surgeon, on a holiday in Alfriston, a village in Sussex, finds a first edition of Gray's Anatomy in a second-hand bookshop. He discovers that written in the title page were the signatures of two previous owners. The second owner turned out to be Harry Quatermain who joins the Royal Army Medical Corps. Harry is dispatched to join the brigade at Peshawar where a war waging for control of the Khyber Pass.He then is promoted to brigadier and head of the RAMC in the taking of Jerusale...