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Portrait of a Killer: Jack the Ripper - Case Closed | 
 enlarge | Author: Patricia Cornwell
Creator: Lorelei King
Publisher: HarperCollins Audio
Category: Book
List Price: £14.00
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Rating:  4 reviews
Sales Rank: 299404
Format: Audiobook
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Items: 3
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 5.4 x 5 x 0.9
ISBN: 000715383X
Dewey Decimal Number: 364
EAN: 9780007153831
ASIN: 000715383X
Publication Date: November 18, 2002
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Condition: Ships from the UK by Royal Mail / 3xCD's / Abridged / Read by Lorelei King / Brand-New & Sealed(has 2 cracks on back of case)
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 2/5 for research & readability but 0/5 for facts ! March 20, 2007
P. Miller (SW Scotland)
The skills of the writer and her editors manage to blanche the facts that - before I get lost in the medical ground of the DNA technical report - that she does not even have Sickert's DNA to test ! Not the impression left with every reader who has reviewed elsewhere. Shameless conjecture after shameless conjecture, and if Sickertis demonstrably recorded as being in France at the time of most of the killings this is a mere `alibi'! Hokum.
Finally, Ch 18 p.271 "Her photograph after death may have been the only one taken in her life" is a sentence for which a teacher would chastise a nine year old.
 Jack the ripper - Case closed May 26, 2004
Emma Cross (London)
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
Fantastic book, I was totally gripped.
Show Me The Money!!! October 16, 2003
2 out of 6 found this review helpful
I cannot but condemn the thesis of this book! The author's forte stems from crime fiction and perhaps this is the field in which she should remain. The source of her research is based, in part, upon the purchase and dissection of some paintings of one of Britain's most interesting yet overlooked artists. The author's experience as an unqualified particpant observer in American mortuaries hardly justifies an extension into the investigation of a historical British case study.
 Big-Headed American November 11, 2002
Norton
3 out of 5 found this review helpful
It seems to me that the author has succeeded in proving that Walter Sickert, the world-famous artist, was responsible for writing a majority of the Jack The Ripper letters that the police force and newspapers recieved at the time.What she hasn't - and can't - convinced me of is that he was actually the murderer.
He may have been eccentric, mean-spirited, and slightly disturbed (a look at his art can tell anyone this), but this does not make a killer. This is a fascinating book, and I do recommend it for anyone intrested in the Jack the Ripper case, but ultimately the mystery will NEVER be solved.
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