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.
Fascinating It is a well written book into the life of an odd but interesting man. The scientific world meets the artistic world, the old meets the new.
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)…