4 Results for : sanitorium
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Starvation Heights: A True Story of Murder and Malice in the Woods of the Pacific Northwest , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 830min
In 1911 two wealthy British heiresses, Claire and Dora Williamson, came to 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 were emaciated shadows of their former selves, waiting for death. They were not the first victims of Linda Hazzard, a quack doctor of extraordinary evil and greed who would stop at nothing short of murder to achieve her ambitions. As their jewelry disappeared and forged bank drafts began transferring their wealth to Hazzards accounts, Dora Williamson sent a last desperate plea to a friend in Australia, begging her to save them from the brutal treatments and lonely isolation of 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. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jennifer Van Dyck. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/002199/bk_adbl_002199_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Fugitive Moon , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 450min
A dark murder mystery - and an edgy send-up of political correctness and America's appetite for celebrity vice - by "a very gifted writer and storyteller who can mix raucous, vulgar comedy with shrewd insight and deep feeling and still maintain the narrative pace of a 94 mph fastball." (Booklist) Teddy Moon, ace major league relief pitcher, manic-depressive, and occasional amnesiac - is convinced that he's being framed for the bizarre murders of several transsexuals who are turning up in the garbage chutes of his team's various hotels. Hounded by the police, the Legion of Fear, and the elite cadres of the Politically Correct, Teddy takes off cross-country on a manic binge to find someone who doesn't think he did it. He appeals to an ex-wife in Iowa, his heretical psychiatrist at the Alamo Ranch Sanitorium in New Mexico, and finally throws himself into the many arms of his neo-Hindu girlfriend in Hollywood, but no one believes his story - and why should they? Only Moon, with the help of his alter egos Don Coyote and the Baseballman, can find the truth - and the murderer. Maybe. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: James Patrick Cronin. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/019101/bk_adbl_019101_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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X Minus One, Vol. 2: The Classic Radio Sci-Fi Series, Hörbuch, Digital, 334min
Countdown for blastoff...X minus five, four, three, two, X minus one.... Fire! From the far horizons of the unknown come transcribed tales of new dimensions in time and space. These are stories of the future - adventures in which you'll live in a million could-be years on a thousand may-be worlds. Thus began each episode of X Minus One, a half-hour science fiction radio series that was broadcast from 1955 until 1958. Initially a revival of NBC's Dimension X, the first 15 episodes were new versions of Dimension X episodes, but the remainder were adaptations by NBC staff writers of newly published science fiction stories by leading writers in the field, including Isaac Asimov, Ray Bradbury, Philip K. Dick, Robert A. Heinlein, Frederik Pohl, and Theodore Sturgeon, along with some original scripts. Paving the way with fresh, imaginative stories, X Minus One is widely considered among the finest science fiction dramas ever produced for radio. Episodes included: "Dr. Grimshaw's Sanitorium", "Shanghaied", "The Castaways", "Vital Factor", "Hallucination Orbit", "The Defenders", "If You Was a Moklin", "Wherever You May Be", "The Last Martian", "The Moon Is Green", "Venus Is a Man's World", and "The Trap". Language: English. Narrator: full cast. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/blak/008631/bk_blak_008631_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Dimension X, Vol. 2: The Classic Radio Collection, Hörbuch, Digital, 334min
Adventures in time and space...told in future tense... was famous narrator Norman Rose's opening to the radio show with some of radio's earliest science fiction, adapted from masters of the genre. Dimension X was one of radio's first adult science fiction series, and made its mark by adapting short stories by acknowledged masters in the field, including Isaac Asimov, Clifford D. Simak, and William Tenn. Scriptwriters Ernest Kinoy and George Lefferts, who also contributed their own original scripts, adapted the original stories. At the start of every broadcast, host Norman Rose promised us "adventures in time and space, told in future tense" and you knew you were about to be transported from your everyday existence to somewhere completely different - maybe even a distant planet. Radio was a fertile medium for science fiction. It was easy to visit other planets, interact with aliens, or fly in a rocket ship simply by using your imagination. Dimension X debuted April 8, 1950, and completed its broadcast run September 29, 1951. Included here are the following episodes: "A Logic Named Joe" by Murray Leinster, with Joseph Julian and Roger DeKoven (07/01/1950), "The Man in the Moon" by George Lefferts, with Luis van Rooten and Santos Ortega (07/14/1950), "The Potters of Firsk" by Jack Vance, with Karl Weber and Raymond Edward Johnson (07/28/1950) , "Pyrigi's Wonderful Dolls" by George Lefferts, with Les Damon and Joan Alexander (08/04/1950), "The Castaways" by Ernest Kinoy and George Lefferts, with Santos Ortega and Gregory Morton (08/11/1950), "Dr. Grimshaw's Sanitorium" by Fletcher Pratt, with Karl Weber and Roger DeKoven (09/22/1950), "Shanghaied" by Ernest Kinoy, with Leon Janney and John Sylvester (11/12/1950), "The Last Objective" by Paul Carter, with Lawson Zerbe and Ralph Bell (06/03/1951), "Nightmare" by Stephen Vincent Benét, with Joseph Julian and Joe DeSantis (06/10/1951), "Pebble in the Sky" by I Language: English. Narrator: full cast, Norman Rose. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/blak/009259/bk_blak_009259_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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