Summary Of Deadly By Julie Chibbaro

The novel Deadly by Julie Chibbaro follows the journey of a sixteen-year-old girl named Prudence who is living in the early 1900s, a time where disease and sickness ran rampant. Prudence assists George Soper, an epidemiologist at the New York Health and Sanitation Department with tracking down Mary Mallon, an Irish cook who is rumored to have been the cause of a recent typhoid outbreak in the city. Throughout the book, the characters pursue the uninformed and, frankly, terrified Mary Mallon and capture her to put her in quarantine. The controversy in the book is whether or not Mary Mallon was an innocent victim or a malicious villain. Hounded and by the Health Department and made notorious by the press, it became evident that Mary Mallon was