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

by Gregg Olsen

The setting is a forested wilderness in the Northwest, circa 1911. The villain is a tall, egotistical woman doctor with an imposing jawline and a fierce will to dominate others. The victims are two wealthy English sisters, gullible health faddists after the fashion of those who flocked to Dr. Kellogg's sanitarium in Battle Creek, Michigan. But unlike Dr. Kellogg's comparatively gentle method of... (read more)

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reading this book, i didn't know whether to disbelieve the utter depravity of the doctor, the desperation of the women, or (dare i say it?) their sheer stupidity. then you remember, oh, this really happened!!!! a must read for those not squimish. i loved it.

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