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Ripper: The Secret Life of Walter Sickert - by Patricia Cornwell (Hardcover)

Ripper: The Secret Life of Walter Sickert - by  Patricia Cornwell (Hardcover)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>"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, detailed maps, and hundreds of images that bring the sinister case to life"--Dust jacket flap.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><b>A #1 <i>Wall Street Journal</i> bestseller.</b></p><p>From <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author Patricia Cornwell comes <i>Ripper: The Secret Life of Walter Sickert</i>, 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.</p><p>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.</p><p>Incorporating material from <i>Portrait of a Killer: Jack the Ripper--Case Closed</i>, this new edition has been revised and expanded to include eight new chapters.</p>

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