The Prisoner of Hell Gate

Download or read book The Prisoner of Hell Gate written by Dana I. Wolff and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2016-07-05 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Karalee Soper, a graduate student at Havermeyer University's school of public health, grew up hearing tales of her heroic great grandfather, George A. Soper, who tracked down and locked away Irish immigrant cook Mary Mallon--the infamous disease carrier who came to be called Typhoid Mary. So when partying on a pleasure cruise with her closest friends, she finds herself in an area of the East River known as Hell Gate--in sight of the long-uninhabited island where Mary languished bitterly for decades--and can't resist the temptation to sneak ashore for a secret visit"--