d. 1938

A fictionalized account of the life of Typhoid Mary, an Irish immigrant who moved to New York at the turn of the century and became a successful cook, until the Department of Health noticed the trail of disease she left behind.

A brief introduction to the life and accomplishments of blues musician Robert Johnson that covers his childhood, early career, and his legacy as a musician. Includes a time line.

In the early nineteen-hundreds, sixteen-year-old Prudence Galewski leaves school to take a job assisting the head epidemiologist at New York's Department of Health and Sanitation, investigating the intriguing case of "Typhoid Mary," a seemingly healthy woman who is infecting others with typhoid fever. Includes a historical note by the author.

Details the story of musician Robert Johnson as a focus for the complete history of the blues.

Presents a novelization of the life of Mary Mallon, the first known healthy carrier of typhoid in North America, who spent much of her life in quarantine after infecting the families she cooked for in New York City in the early 1900s.

In the early nineteen-hundreds, sixteen-year-old Prudence Galewski leaves school to take a job assisting the head epidemiologist at New York's Department of Health and Sanitation, investigating the intriguing case of "Typhoid Mary," a seemingly healthy woman who is infecting others with typhoid fever. Includes a historical note by the author.

A sympathetic historical examination of early-twentieth-century Irish-American cook Mary Mallon, who was immortalized as "Typhoid Mary" after a sanitary engineer traced a 1904 typhoid fever outbreak back to her Long Island kitchen.

Dramatizes the story of Mary Mallon, a seemingly healthy Irish immigrant cook who became known as Typhoid Mary after being identified as the source of an outbreak of typhoid fever in New York in 1906, and who was subsequently banished to a quarantine island off Manhattan against her will.

Chronicles the life of Robert Johnson, discussing how he transformed from obscure musician to one of the most important artists in early blues and a founding father of rock and roll; includes a CD with selections of blues music.