Typhoid Mary

Paperback • 2005 • English • 1. edition

Typhoid Mary

By Anthony Bourdain

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About the book

In 1906, at a prosperous Long Island summer home, a family falls ill and typhoid is diagnosed. When Dr George Soper is called in to find the source of the contagion, he notices that the household cook has gone missing. She is Mary Mallon, the woman who would become known as Typhoid Mary. Soper, sanitary engineer turned sleuth, sees Mary as his Moriarty. He finds there has been an outbreak of typhoid fever in every household she has worked in over the past decade. Mary is a 'carrier', a seemingly...Show more

Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary

Book details

ISBN

9780747566878

Publisher

Bloomsbury

Published year

2005

Language

English

Edition

1

Original title

Typhoid Mary

Format

Paperback

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