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Starvation Heights: A True Story of Murder and Malice in the Woods of the Pacific Northwest

April 30, 2014

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Claire and Dora Williamson are wealthy British women using their inheritance to travel the world in the early 1900s. Like many people of the time they are convinced that they could be in better health and like many women, with so little understanding of their own bodies, they believed that the slightest discomfort was indicative of a greater disorder. To that end they abandoned ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Non-fiction Tagged: 20th century, history, Pacific Northwest, true crime

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