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

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

by Gregg Olsen

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ISBN 10
1400097460
ISBN 13
9781400097463
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Three Rivers Press, May 2005. Trade Paperback. VG. used trade paperback edition. lightly shelfworn, corners perhaps slightly bumped. pages and binding are clean, straight and tight. there are no marks to the text or other serious flaws.

Synopsis

In 1911 two wealthy British heiresses, Claire and Dora Williamson, came to 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 Heights, the women were emaciated shadows of their former selves, waiting for death. They were not the first victims of Linda Hazzard, a quack doctor of extraordinary evil and greed who would stop at nothing short of murder to achieve her ambitions. As their jewelry disappeared and forged bank drafts began transferring their wealth to Hazzard's accounts, Dora Williamson sent a last desperate plea to a friend in Australia, begging her to save them from the brutal treatments and lonely isolation of Starvation Heights.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.From the Trade Paperback edition.

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Bookseller
Magus Books US (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #
1166875
Title
Starvation Heights: A True Story of Murder and Malice in the Woods of the Pacific Northwest
Author
Gregg Olsen
Format/Binding
Trade Paperback
Book Condition
Used - VG
Quantity Available
1
Binding
Paperback
ISBN 10
1400097460
ISBN 13
9781400097463
Publisher
Three Rivers Press
Place of Publication
New York, Ny
Date Published
May 2005
Pages
432

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