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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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Take two naive wealthy British sisters, a fanatical self-proclaimed doctor, set the story in the back woods of Washington state in 1911, and you have the ingredients of a pretty good historical novel. Turn all of these into a true account of greed and gullibility and you have a fascinating tale that is unbelievably horrid.