Starvation Heights: A True Story of Murder and Malice in the Woods of the Pacific Northwest -- Gregg Olsen, Paperback Percy the Park Keeper including the National Book Award

including the National Book Award for Distinguished Service to American Letters

This small makeshift town is barely more than a campsite for prospectors--but the men who control it are as ruthless as any big-city criminals

will never forget his first Concord grape

Track: 13 - All Join Our Hands

2004 album from the indie rock group

Starvation Heights: A True Story of Murder and Malice in the Woods of the Pacific Northwest -- Gregg Olsen, Paperback Percy the Park Keeper including the National Book AwardIn 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,