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Terrible typhoid Mary : a true story of the deadliest cook in America / Susan Campbell Bartoletti.

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Boston, Mass. : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, c2015.

9780544313675 (hc)

0544313674 (hc)

229 p. : ill., facsimiles ; 22 cm.

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.

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