New York Times" bestselling novelist Cornwell is known the world over for her brilliant storytelling. In this headline-making new work of nonfiction, Cornwell turns her trademark skills 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.
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New York Times" bestselling novelist Cornwell is known the world over for her brilliant storytelling. In this headline-making new work of nonfiction, Cornwell turns her trademark skills 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.
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One of the best books yet written on Jack the ripper.
b29b
Jan 15, 2009
far from a case closed
The Whitechapel murders intrigue us because they were particularly brutal, occured on city streets, and because they remain unsolved. Ms. Cromwell settles on a particular suspect, and links him through DNA evidence and "profiling" to the crimes. (I will not spoil the book by naming her suspect.) In doing so, she chooses to brush quickly past the fact that her supect was out of the country at the time of the crimes. Her DNA evidence is based on certain infamous "ripper letters," although the police at the time, like modern experts, considered all of these letters hoaxes. Her profiling is flawed because much of what she says about her suspect is simply not true. A fascinating case, but there are many better books on the subject.
