Once again I lost control and devoured something I had vowed to savor slowly.  I tried to pace myself by thinking of household chores to distract me.  "I'll empty the dishwasher at the end of this chapter. . . three chapters ago." Yes, Nathan Dylan Goodwin has done it again.  His latest mystery, The Dover Trunk Murder,  is another enthralling work of intrigue.  Nathan always does meticulous research, thus his books transport the reader to another place, another time, with engaging characters. Dover, England circa 1914 In The Dover Trunk Murder , the reader is transported to Dover, England in August, 1914, days before Germany invaded Belgium sparking what would become World War I.  Our main character is Edwin Dalloway, Detective Inspector, lately of Scotland Yard and now newly employed by the Dover Burrough Police Department.   www.oldmapsonline.org Edwin has barely set foot in Dover when someone finds a severed woman's arm on the sand next to the ...

Nearly hidden Pioneer Cemetery   Courtesy Google Maps If you are north bound on Auburn Way North, a main thoroughfare in Auburn, south King County, Washington, and stop for a traffic light, you may glimpse a small cemetery to your right at 8th Street NE.  This is the Auburn Pioneer Cemetery, on land donated for that purpose in 1878.  Grave of a Civil War veteran, M. P. Hopkins Courtesy Kristy Lommen "The marker commemorating the Auburn Pioneer Cemetery’s only Civil War veteran is disappointingly vague. It includes no dates, neither birth nor death. The soldier’s name is included, but in abbreviated form. And to add insult to injury, the sparse information that  is   displayed has been mis-transcribed and published incorrectly on several online genealogy sites. Fortunately, the stone does include the fact that Mr. Hopkins served in Company B of the 1st Wisconsin Cavalry—and that single fact was enough information to discover much of his life story."1 Recently the...