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Typhoid Mary : an urban historical by Bourdain, Anthony is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
What is Typhoid Mary : an urban historical about?
In 1906, at a prosperous Long Island summer home, a family falls ill and typhold 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
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Bourdain, Anthony
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Published
- 2005
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780747566878
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Medical, Fiction, Memoir
- Rating
- 3.5 / 5 (68 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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