Prescription Murder

by Ann Kurth

Book Overview

No fiction can match the horrors of the story this woman has to tell. Today Ann Kurth lives near Austin, Texas, hoping she is free at last from the nightmare that was her life. Just a short while ago... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0451099974
• ISBN13: 9780451099976
• Release Date: October 1976
• Publisher: Signet Book
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 0.68 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Prescription Murder by Ann Kurth

The heartrending autobiographical non-fiction work juxtaposes opposites. The quest to ascend to a `higher station in life' defines plastic surgeon, Dr John Hill's socialization. Brought up under captivity, strictly under harness and leash by an optimistic pessimist mother, small-town merchant Myra Hill, John and younger brother Julian's positivist approach to learning, grooms them to win scholarships to high ranking Baylor Medical School. In Myra's view, if equipped with classical music knowledge, their vertical escalation of the social ladder will be guaranteed. As a medical student, his conditional life choices climax 'whirlwind fashion' when he meets and falls in love with assertive socialite and jockey, Joan Robinson, another `victim' of an upbringing under oil baron father, Ashton Robinson believes in giving Joan nothing else but `the best money can buy'. Ash doesn't only hesitate to `buy' her a husband in John, but also sponsors all the `trappings', further promising smooth glide up the social and professional ladders. John's mentor, Professor Herzfield also (ill)advises the young and vulnerable medical student into marrying a rich girl like Joan so that "he doesn't have to worry about finding another scholarship". As his choices continue to be `all made', John gets trapped. At the point he meets Ann Kurth, his chosen love of his life, John has already run out of choices. It's payback-time for vindictive Ash Robinson. John insanely unleashes his bottled-up anger, murders Joan and four maybe five other people including his own `over-dependent' brother, his `inquisitive' father, his `jealous' medical partner and friend his 'competition' Jack Ramsay, and maybe even the neighbor exterminator, with ease through irretraceable lethal prescriptions. Ann joins the frayed equation at the crunch time. A well brought up, self-confident critical thinker, Ann lives on `borrowed time' as the second wife of the peak IQ, intelligent, gentlemanly yet 'schizophrenic' and diabolically possessive, Dr Hill. Ann, who reluctantly submits to being his confidante, survives an attempted murder at the hands of her husband. The volcanically temperamental John loves her to distraction and to destruction, so she's compelled to plan her `exit' intelligently and diplomatically. He has neither qualms nor iota of shame when he parrots the mantra his influential mother brought him up to live by: `there comes a time when some people are no longer meant for this world. Sometimes the Lord sees it fit to step in and take them. Other times He expects those of us who know what is best to intercede for Him". As a medical practitioner, commanding access to irretraceable toxic and lethal portions, he has been chosen, in Myra Hill's view, to eliminate those elements that get in the way. A serial killer of a `witch doctor' has been `manufactured'. Groomed to retain her sanity under grisly circumstances, a well refined Ann Kurth plays along to save hers and her three son

Surgeon Murderer

Prescription Murder is the horrifying, but true story of a wife who discovered that her surgeon husband had murdered his first wife and was trying to kill her as well. Dr. John Hill grew upin South Texas in very small towns. It was after he became a doctor in Houston, living a wealthy lifestyle, that his wife died in mysterious circumstances. The book was made into a two-part TV series starring Farrah Fawcett.

Surgeon Murderer

Prescription Murder is the horrifying, but true story of a wife who discovered that her surgeon husband had murdered his first wife and was trying to kill her as well. Dr. John Hill grew upin South Texas in very small towns. It was after he became a doctor in Houston, living a wealthy lifestyle, that his wife died in mysterious circumstances. The book was made into a two-part TV series starring Farrah Fawcett.