Ripper

The Secret Life of Walter Sickert

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Ripper

By: Patricia Cornwell

Narrated by: Mary Stuart Masterson

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From New York Times bestselling author Patricia Cornwell comes Ripper: The Secret Life of Walter Sickert, a comprehensive and intriguing exposé of one of the world's most chilling cases of serial murder - and the police force that failed to solve it.

Vain and charismatic Walter Sickert made a name for himself as a painter in Victorian London. But the ghoulish nature of his art - as well as extensive evidence - points to another name, one that's left its bloody mark on the pages of history: Jack the Ripper. Cornwell has collected never-before-seen archival material - including a rare mortuary photo, personal correspondence and a will with a mysterious autopsy clause - and applied cutting-edge forensic science to open an old crime to new scrutiny.

Incorporating material from Portrait of a Killer: Jack the Ripper - Case Closed, this new edition has been revised and expanded to include eight new chapters.

Patricia CornwellMary Stuart MastersonBrilliance Audio

Europe

Great Britain

Murder

True Crime

Crime

England

Fiction

Forensics

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Worth a read of you are either a novice or a "Ripperologist"

Unfortunately the author lost her way towards the end by referencing "spooky" occuramces and strange coincidences. This is a shame because much of the rest of the book, though speculation on her part, is well thought out with scientific basis and apparent factual corroboration. So to infer that Jack was haunting the writer/writing is somewhat ridiculous.