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.
Ripper: The Secret Life Of Walter Sickert if you’re not a member of Kindle Unlimited don’t buy it for the device. Amazon for some reason made it so it can’t be read straight from the Kindle app as a regular kindle book. When released it should have had a kindle app format. Why Amazon did this I’m not too sure. Suggest readers bade uy the hardback.
The book itself is probably interesting – if I could … The book itself is probably interesting – if I could actually get all of it to download.I’m reading it on the Kindle app on my phone.I’ve tried turning the special effects function on, and off again, nothing works.Amazon, you really screwed this up!
Sickert may have been odd — but was he really Jack-the-Ripper? Cornwell here restates her assertion (as previously presented in her PORTRAIT OF A KILLER and CHASING THE RIPPER) that Walter Sickert, a famous painter, was also the infamous Jack-the-Ripper. While she succeeds in demonstrating that Sickert was eccentric (but which truly great artist isn’t to some extent?) she does NOT succeed in proving — at least to MY satisfaction — that he was a murderer let alone that he was the Ripper. Yes, there is typical (and quite interesting, though questionable)…