The Secrets of Doctor Taverner

In some ways, The Secrets of Doctor Taverner is a novelization of Dion Fortune’s own life; Dr. Taverner is based on her own mentor, and his assistant, Dr. Rhodes, is taken to be Fortune herself. In other ways, the novel is a psychological mystery and Taverner is an occult Sherlock Holmes. Taverner is an eccentric Doctor treating patients taken to be hopelessly insane by the medical establishment. Where most doctors see hopeless cases of mental defect, Taverner accesses occult knowledge — from past lives to misplaced souls — to free his patients from psychic distress. A rollicking good read!