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"Between August and November 1888, at least seven women were murdered in London's Whitechapel area. The gruesome nature of their deaths caused panic and fear in the East End for months, and gave rise to the sobriquet that was to become shorthand for a serial killer - Jack the Ripper.".
"For over a hundred years the murders have remained among the world's greatest unsolved crimes, and a wealth of theories have been posited which have pointed the finger at royalty, a barber, a doctor, a woman and an artist.
Using her formidable range of forensic and technical skills, Patricia Cornwell has applied the rigorous discipline of twenty-first-century police investigation to the extant material, and here presents the hard evidence that the perpetrator was the world-famous artist Walter Sickert.".
"By using techniques unknown in the late Victorian age, Patricia Cornwell has exposed Sickert as the author of the infamous Ripper letters to the Metropolitan Police. Her detailed analysis of his paintings shows how his art continually depicted his horrific mutilation of his victims, and her examination of this man's birth defects, the consequent genital surgical interventions and their effects on his upbringing presents a casebook example of how a psychopathic killer is created."--BOOK JACKET.
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Portrait of a Killer: Jack the Ripper Case Closed
2003, Berkley Books, Berkley
in English
- Berkley mass-market ed.
0425192733 9780425192733
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Wer war Jack the Ripper?: Porträt eines Killers
2002, Weltbild
Taschenbuch
in German
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3828972330 9783828972339
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Portrait of a killer: Jack the Ripper-- case closed
2002, Putnam's
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0399149325 9780399149320
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Portrait of a Killer: Jack the Ripper--Case Closed (Windsor Selection)
June 2002, Chivers
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [350]-364) and index.
"Now updated with new material"--Cover.
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"Monday, August 6, 1888, was a bank holiday in London."
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