The Purple Nightgown

A Health Spa Is Strewn with Walking Skeletons

Heiress Stella Burke is plagued by insincere suitors and nonstop headaches. Exhausting all other medical aids for her migraines, Stella reads Fasting for the Cure of Disease by Linda Hazzard and determines to go to the health spa run by the author. Stella's chauffer and longtime friend, Henry Clayton, is reluctant to leave her at the spa. Despite his uneasy feelings, Stella submits herself into Linda Hazzard's care.

Stella soon learns the spa has a dark side and Linda a mean streak. But when Stella has had enough, all ways to leave are suddenly blocked. Will Stella become a walking skeleton like many of the other patients or succumb to a worse fate?