Ripper, Patricia Cornwell
Ripper, Patricia Cornwell
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Ripper
The Secret Life of Walter Sickert

Author: Patricia Cornwell

Narrator: Mary Stuart Masterson

Unabridged: 13 hr 26 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download (DRM Protected)

Published: 02/28/2017

Synopsis

A #1 Wall Street Journal bestseller.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.

About Patricia Cornwell

Patricia Cornwell is a Miami born, contemporary crime novelist. Her books usually feature the heroine Dr. Kay Scarpetta, who is a medical examiner. After a way sad childhood, Cornwall graduated from Davidson College with a degree in English. She wrote a biography of a family friend entitled, “A Time for Remembering”, then renamed “Ruth, A Portrait: The Story of Ruth Bell Graham” in 1983. After working in a Virginia medical examiners for six years, she wrote the first installment of her “Scarpetta” series entitled “Postmortem”. Her six year job was valuable in including a lot of forensic science details in her “Scarpetta” series. Her novels are considered to have influenced the creation of the TV series on forensics such as CSI: Crime Scene Investigation and Cold Case. In the same vein Cornwell made a brief appearance on the Criminal Minds episode “True Genius”, as herself.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Sezin

What a phenomenal and utterly disturbing book. I learned: 1) The identity of Jack The Ripper, with 98% certainty, is the British artist Walter Sickert, proven by intense forensic analysis. 2) He not only killed the prostitutes for which he is best known, but possibly 40+ others, including children, me......more

Goodreads review by Louie the Mustache

I think I read this for the first time, ten to fifteen years ago. Cornwell was doing an interview on one of the news shows, Dateline, or some such. She was communicating a compelling argument, about the real Jack the Ripper, such that I bought her book. It is extraordinarily dry. However, her argume......more

Goodreads review by Rebecca

I have to say, I know I am in the minority when I say that I find this argument for artist Walter Sickert to be the Ripper rather convincing. Not everyone is going to agree, and that's ok -- I feel that the truth behind the Ripper killings in 1888 London will remain a mystery for all time. There jus......more

Goodreads review by Χρύσα

Αυτή η γυναίκα πραγματικά δεν θα με αφήσει να αγιάσω σε ό,τι αφορά τα βιβλία της. Εκεί που πάω να βρω κάτι καλό να πω, έρχεται και ανατρέπει κάθε ρημάδα καλή μου πρόθεση. Ξεκίνησα να διαβάζω αυτό το βιβλίο κυρίως γιατί ανέκαθεν με ενδιέφερε η ιστορία του Τζακ του Αντεροβγάλτη. Δεν πίστευα εξαρχής πω......more

Goodreads review by Sarah

Cornwall’s foray into her version of non-fiction is an entertaining read, but objective investigation it is not. Even in recounting the, largely undisputed, facts of the canonical five murders, the author commits the cardinal sin of ignoring evidence that doesn’t support her theory, while manipulati......more

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