Young Dr. Kildare is the first in a popular series of eight novels by writer Max Brand, beginning in 1940 and finishing in 1943.
Kildare take on a special case to force his beloved Gillespie to take a rest from the research job which is draining him. The case involves a fear neurosis in the daughter of a multimillionaire, and Kildaire uses unorthodox means to get to the bottom of it.
He has an ingenious way of bringing her out of darkness, and with a little detective work, uncovering exactly what happened. And in the process, Gillespie stages a comeback, and they go on with their research job.
Kildare was such a popular series, it was made into a long running MGM movie series, radio programs, comics, and the TV series.
