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Bartoletti, Susan Campbell

Terrible Typhoid Mary: A True Story of the Deadliest Cook in America

230 pp. | Houghton | August, 2015 | Trade ISBN 978-0-544-31367-5 $17.99

(1) 4-6 What was it like to be a servant, an immigrant, a woman in the early twentieth century? Bartoletti weaves the answers into the beginning of "Typhoid Mary" Mallon's story--using Mary as a lens to view a wider swath of American society--then covers epidemiologist George Soper's cat-and-mouse game of tracking Mary down. Excellent nonfiction with a novelistic trim size and narrative. Timeline. Bib., ind.

Reviewer: Jonathan Hunt | Horn Book Magazine Issue: July, 2015