Prelude: June 16, 1903 -- Ithaca and its kings -- The boys club -- Conflict of interest -- Newsmen -- The dam -- Lives of the students -- The valley of death -- Typhoid, and how the epidemic began -- Denial -- Apocalypse -- The fixer -- Going home -- The man who saved Ithaca -- The man who saved Cornell University -- Retribution -- Epilogue: Getting away with murder -- Afterword: The conquest of typhoid.