Three's Company.

Three's Company (1958) is among the most characteristic and quietly accomplished novels of Alfred Duggan (1903–1964), the Argentine-born English historian, archaeologist, and historical novelist whose meticulous scholarship and dry wit made him one of the most distinctive voices in mid-century British historical fiction. The novel takes as its subject Marcus Aemilius Lepidus - the largely forgotten third member of Rome's Second Triumvirate, who shared rule of the Roman world with Mark Antony and Octavian following the assassination of Julius Caesar - and traces his career across the turbulent years from 49 to 36 BC entirely from Lepidus's own perspective. The novel was praised by Rex Warner, who noted that Duggan succeeded in making Lepidus a modern character while firmly placing him in his own age, calling Three's Company a most competent piece of work - scholarly, alive, and suggestive.