The number-one New York Times-bestselling novelist Patricia Cornwell is known the world over for her brilliant storytelling, the courage of her characters, and the state-of-the-art forensic methods they employ.
In this headline-making new work of nonfiction, Cornwell turns her trademark skills for meticulous research and scientific expertise on one of the most chilling cases of serial murder in the history of crime-the slayings of Jack the Ripper that terrorized 1880s London. With the masterful intuition into the criminal mind that has informed her novels, Cornwell digs deeper into the case than any detective before her-and reveals the true identity of this elusive madman.
Enlisting the help of forensic experts, Cornwell examines all the physical evidence available: thousands of documents and reports, fingerprints, crime-scene photographs, original etchings and paintings, items of clothing, artists' paraphernalia, and traces of DNA. Her unavoidable conclusion: Jack the Ripper was none other than a respected painter of his day, an artist now collected by some of the world's finest museums.
Reviews:
John Rees (USA: CA) (2007/02/08): As some one from Britain reading a book about JTR writing by an American NOVELIST!! i found it to be a very good historical reference about London and its people in the late 1800s,but as for proving that Sickert was JTR i found this book totally inconclusive in that area.Many painters and writers of this period had the same strange whims and habits as Sickert,so you could probably attribute JTR to another 10 artistes or so of this time.
Patricia stick to writing novels this is not your genre...
