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Author Cornwell, Patricia Daniels.

Title Portrait of a killer : Jack the Ripper-- case closed / Patricia Cornwell.

Publication Info. New York : Putnam's, 2002.

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 Avon Free Public Library - Adult Department  364.1523 CORNWELL    Check Shelf
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Description 387 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations, map ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [367]-379) and index.
Contents Mr. Nobody -- Tour -- Unfortunates -- By some person unknown -- Glorious boy -- Walter and the boys -- Gentleman slummer -- Bit of broken looking glass -- Dark lantern -- Medicine of the courts -- Summer night -- Young and beautiful -- Hue and cry.
Summary In this 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. It takes the world's premier crime writer to solve the greatest whodunit in history. Now, once and for all, the case of Jack the Ripper is closed.
Subject Jack, the Ripper.
Sickert, Walter, 1860-1942.
Serial murders -- England -- London -- History -- 19th century.
Whitechapel (London, England) -- History.
ISBN 0399149325 (acid-free paper)
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