The plot of The Assassination Bureau, Ltd., was included among fourteen brief story outlines Jack London purchased from Sinclair Lewis for seventy dollars on March 11, 1910. London wrote twenty thousand words and then abandoned the novel in late June of 1910, claiming he did not know how logically to conclude it. Robert L. Fish’s completed version of the London manuscript was published in the fall of 1963 with London’s “Notes for the Completion of the Book” and the “Ending as Outlined by Charmian London.”