Patricia Cornwell: Portrait of a Killer (USA 2003) From the Publisher: 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. Patricia Cornwell: Portrait of a Killer. Jack The Ripper - Case Closed. Berkley Publishing Group, ISBN: 0425192733 (November, 2003), 383 p., $7.99.
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Patricia Cornwell: Portrait of a Killer (UK 2003) From the Publisher: Patricia Cornwell: Portrait of a Killer. Jack The Ripper - Case Closed. Time Warner Paperbacks, ISBN: 0751533599 (June, 2003), 468 p., £6.99.
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Patricia Cornwell: Portrait of a Killer (UK 2002) From the Publisher: Patricia Cornwell: Portrait of a Killer. Jack The Ripper - Case Closed. Little, Brown, ISBN: 0316861596 (November, 2002), 387 p., £17.99.
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Patricia Cornwell: Portrait of a Killer (USA 2002) From the Publisher: 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. Patricia Cornwell: Portrait of a Killer. Jack The Ripper - Case Closed. Putnam's, ISBN: 0399149325 (November, 2002), 387 p., $27.95.
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