Terrible typhoid Mary : a true story of the deadliest cook in America /

"What happens when a person's reputation has been forever damaged? With archival photographs and text among other primary sources, this riveting biography of Mary Mallon by the Sibert medalist and Newbery Honor winner Susan Bartoletti looks beyond the tabloid scandal of Mary's controv...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Bartoletti, Susan Campbell (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Boston ; New York : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, [2015]
Subjects:	Typhoid Mary, > 1869-1938 > Juvenile literature. Typhoid fever > New York (State) > New York > History > Juvenile literature. Quarantine > New York (State) > New York > History > Juvenile literature. Cooks > New York (State) > New York > Biography > Juvenile literature. Typhoid Mary, > 1869-1938. Cooks. Quarantine. Typhoid fever. New York (State) > New York. Biographies. Biography. History. Juvenile works.
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Table of Contents:

In which Mrs. Warren has a servant problem
In which the Warrens get more than their just "desserts"
In which the usual suspects are questioned
In which an epidemic fighter hunts for a clue
In which the cook rules the kitchen
In which Mary walks more like a man than a woman
In which extraordinary and arbitrary powers are at work
In which Mary fights like a caged lion
In which Mary's bad behavior leads to her doom
In which there's some name-calling
In which Mary is banished like a leper
In which Mary Mallon has her day in court
In which Mary learns to keep her germs to herself
In which it takes a squad of sanitary police
In which a weaker spirit might have been broken
Afterword, in which we consider the writing of Mary's life.