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Book Review of Starvation Heights: The True Story of an American Doctor and the Murder of a British Heiress

Starvation Heights:  The True Story of an American Doctor and the Murder of a British Heiress
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The true story of an American doctor and the murder of a British heiress.

In 1911, two wealthy British heiresses came to a sanatorium near Seattle to undergo the revolutionary fasting treatment of Linda Burfield Hazzard. Within a month, they were emaciated and groaning with pain.

A haunting saga of medical murder, one of the most unusual and disturbing criminal cases in history.