Starvation Heights: The True Story of an American Doctor and the Murder of a British Heiress
by Gregg Olsen
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- Fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fine/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 1568652836
- ISBN 13
- 9781568652832
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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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- NWJBOOKS (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 009442
- Title
- Starvation Heights: The True Story of an American Doctor and the Murder of a British Heiress
- Author
- Gregg Olsen
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 1568652836
- ISBN 13
- 9781568652832
- Publisher
- WARNER BOOKS
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1997
- Pages
- 415
- Keywords
- nonfiction; crime; murder; medical malpractice
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