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Starvation Heights: A True Story of Murder and Malice in the Woods of the Pacific Northwest

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Starvation Heights: A True Story of Murder and Malice in the Woods of the Pacific Northwest - Olsen, Gregg
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In this true story--a haunting saga of medical murder set in an era of steamships and gaslights--Gregg Olsen reveals one of the most unusual and disturbing criminal cases in American history. In 1911 two wealthy British heiresses, Claire and Dora Williamson, arrived at a sanitorium in the forests of the Pacific Northwest to undergo the revolutionary "fasting treatment" of Dr. Linda Burfield Hazzard. It was supposed to be a holiday for the two sisters, but within a month of arriving at what the locals called Starvation ...

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Starvation Heights: A True Story of Murder and Malice in the Woods of the Pacific Northwest 2005, Crown Publishing Group (NY), New York, NY

ISBN-13: 9781400097463

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