{"product_id":"the-secrets-of-dr-taverner","title":"The Secrets of Dr. Taverner","description":"Of the many authors who have turned their hands to the creation of supernatural sleuths  few have been so colourful  and as contradictory  as Dion Fortune. She was  in her time  a highly significant and influential figure within spiritualistic circles: a one-time member of the Order of the Golden Dawn  she left it to create another society  the Fraternity of the Inner Light  which (under another name) still exists today; and which refuses to discuss her. During the 1920s and 1930s she wrote books  pamphlets  and articles about her spiritual philosophies and various sociological and sexual issues  including vegetarianism  the servant problem  and contraception. She also turned her hand to fiction  writing novels which contained such elements as black and white magic  the great god Pan  astral bodies  reincarnation  and the lost city of Atlantis. When she died in 1946  Fortune left her final novel  MOON MAGIC  uncompleted; the last two chapters are said to have been dictated by her from beyond to one of the Inner Light mediums. Her first work of fiction  however  was THE SECRETS OF DR TAVERNER  first published in 1926. The stories concern some of the psychic adventures of the Holmes-like Taverner  as narrated by his assistant  Dr Rhodes. In addition to containing the eleven stories from the first edition  this volume also includes a twelfth Dr Taverner tale  A Son of the Night  which was not published until some years after Fortunes death  and which has been the cause of some speculation regarding its authorship. In his lengthy introduction  Jack Adrian examines the enigma who was Dion Fortune  and provides a possible solution to the question of which real person served as the basis for Dr Taverner.","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44894904156213,"sku":"ByrdShop_0898041376","price":167.07,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/ByrdShop_0898041376.jpg?v=1767436474","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-secrets-of-dr-taverner","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}