Ripper : the secret life of Walter Sickert / Patricia Cornwell.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781503936874
- ISBN: 1503936872
- Physical Description: 553 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 24 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: Seattle : Thomas & Mercer, [2017]
- Copyright: ©2017
Content descriptions
General Note: | "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."--Jacket. |
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 511-528) and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Mr. Nobody -- The unfortunates -- By some person unknown -- A glorious boy -- Thorns and sharp stones -- Walter and the boys -- The daughters of Cobden -- The gentleman slummer -- A bit of broken looking glass -- The dark lantern -- The royal conspiracy -- Dreadful bleeding corpses -- Instant death -- Wide staring eyes -- Red fingerprints -- Hue and cry -- Crochet work and flowers -- A cautious indicator -- A painted letter -- A man in ordinary life -- Stygian blackness -- The streets until dawn -- A shiny black bag -- These characters about -- Night horrors -- A great joke -- A social disease -- A lovely sea side business -- A very bad man -- In a horse bin -- Three keys -- The darkest day of the darkest night -- Sweet violets -- Shapes on the wall -- Further from the grave -- My coda to Jack the Ripper -- How it all began and never ended. |
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Subject: | Jack, the Ripper. Sickert, Walter, 1860-1942. Serial murders > England > London > History > 19th century. Whitechapel (London, England) > History. |
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Available copies
- 1 of 1 copy available at Kirtland Community College.
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- 0 current holds with 1 total copy.
Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Kirtland Community College Library | HV 6535 .G6 C67 2017 | 30775305521081 | General Collection | Available | - |
Publishers Weekly Review
Ripper : The Secret Life of Walter Sickert
Publishers Weekly
In this follow-up to 2002's Portrait of a Killer: Jack the Ripper, Case Closed, Cornwell doggedly clings to her accusation that the legendary serial killer was painter Walter Sickert, though she concedes that her original case was overstated. However, in this account she does little to remedy the holes left in the last. Cornwell still imputes significance to facts of dubious relevance-for example, she links the uncommon use of "ha ha" in Ripper's letters to Sickert through his friendship with James McNeill Whistler, who was known for saying "ha ha." Her account jumps around chronologically, which makes ill-suited to readers who are unfamiliar with the case. She includes a section responding to critics of her prior book, as well as a litany of bizarre occurrences that she attributes to the Ripper's lingering psychic presence ("From the first moment I began this work, I sensed an entity, a terrifically negative energy that when invoked causes strange aberrations of physics"). At one point, she oddly claims that she chose not to interview a previous author who'd suspected Sickert, though that writer had died 16 years before she began her quest. Even readers willing to put her idiosyncrasies aside will find that after so much time and effort, Cornwell still fails to present convincing proof of her theory. Color illus. (Jan.) © Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.