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The Mystery of Duffy’s Cut
The deaths of 57 Irish immigrant suburban Philadelphia community. The
railroad workers might have gone book that tells the true story of what he
unnoticed by history if it wasn’t for the found will be available on October 22,
coincidence that put a ship’s manifest 2018. It can be previewed on Amazon
into the hands of a curious Immaculata under the title of Murder at Duffy’s Cut:
History Professor by the name of Bill Tragedy and Conspiracy on the
Watson. About twenty years ago, Bill’s Pennsylvania Railroad.
brother shared the antique, which had
Bill and his colleagues have been
been passed down from their
digging through the red tape to obtain
grandfather. He knew the moment he
the opportunity to excavate the site and
saw the list that it was something out of
possibly retrieve the remains of the
the ordinary.
workers who were said to have died of
This started a search for answers that cholera. However, circumstances of
centered in a bucolic, upper class, their death led his team to suspect there
