King's Row — Henry Bellamann

“More people are mystics than you suspect,” Dr. Parris Mitchell reminds himself. They are hunting for a kind of harmony…”

In this search for harmony, Parris Mitchell must cope with himself as well as the ramifications of a brutal rape two aristocratic brothers, enmeshed with each other the wild screamer of Pomeroy Hill the quite proper wife who can no longer stand to be in the same world with her husband
the gossip linking the warm, exotic Hazel with Dr. Mitchell the murderous hazing at the nearby college and a mysterious drowning.

All are combined as they reach a taut, dramatic climax in this searching novel about man's deep private secrets.