TOMBS & TOMES July 2023

MEETING INVITATION

Hello Tombs & Tomes Members!

You are cordially invited to attend the Tombs & Tomes Book Club outside the chapel (inside if raining) OR virtually via Zoom.

Our next meeting is:

In Person: Tuesday, July 11

Virtual: Wednesday, July 12

We will start at 6:30 p.m.

It's time for us to vote for our next books! Please see the link below for the ballot. Please remember to please only vote twice! The top two vote getters will be our September and November reads.

The September Meeting will be a very special meeting as that is the 10th Birthday of Tombs and Tomes. I'll be inviting past Tombs and Tome-ers (Lauren, Margaret, and Sarah) as well as having a birthday cake and other fun things. (for those who virtually attend, I'll make it fun for us too) I think it would be really cool to read one of the first books Tombs and Tomes reads, either Stiff or The Devil in the White City. I promise I won't rig the vote (only politic to you all haha). Both are included in the ballot below.

I'd also like to remind everyone that we maintain a Tombs and Tomes page on Goodreads and Facebook. I have linked them both below if you would like to use them for discussion before or after our meetings.

To get to the meeting:

Tombs and Tomes (in person) is held in either our Historic Chapel or right outside of it when the weather is nice. To get to Congressional Cemetery, please refer to the below address. Our front gate entrance is at the corner of E St. and Potomac Ave. District street parking is available out front and we are Metro Accessible via the Orange line Potomac Avenue and Stadium Armory stops.

We will be discussing:

July

American Sherlock: Murder, Forensics, and the Birth of American CSI



byKate Winkler Dawson

A gripping historical true crime narrative that "reads like the best of Conan Doyle himself" (Karen Abbott, author of The Ghosts of Eden Park), American Sherlock recounts the riveting true story of the birth of modern criminal investigation.

Berkeley, California, 1933. In a lab filled with curiosities--beakers, microscopes, Bunsen burners, and hundreds upon hundreds of books--sat an investigator who would go on to crack at least two thousand cases in his forty-year career. Known as the "American Sherlock Holmes," Edward Oscar Heinrich was one of America's greatest--and first--forensic scientists, with an uncanny knack for finding clues, establishing evidence, and deducing answers with a skill that seemed almost supernatural...