--An American Plague by Jim Murphy
“No one noticed that the church bells were tolling more often than usual to announce one death, and then another. They rang for Dr. Hugh Hodge’s little daughter, for Peter Aston, for John Weyman, for Mary Shewell, and for a boy named McNair. No one knew that a killer was already moving through their streets with them, an invisible stalker that would go house to house until it had touched everyone, rich or poor, in some terrible way.”
--An American Plague by Jim Murphy
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“Eight deaths in the space of a week in two houses on the same street…but the city did not take notice. Summer fevers were common visitors to all American cities in the eighteenth century, and therefore not headline news.”
--An American Plague by Jim Murphy |