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.
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 Heights, the women
underwent brutal treatments and were emaciated shadows of their former
selves.
Claire and Dora were not the first victims of Linda
Hazzard, a quack doctor of extraordinary evil and greed. But as their
jewelry disappeared and forged bank drafts began transferring their
wealth to Hazzard’s accounts, the sisters came to learn that Hazzard
would stop at nothing short of murder to achieve her ambitions.