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Title: Far from closed
Review: Cornwell's theories about Walter Sickert, where based on evidence, are reasonable and worth a look if you're a Ripperologist open to considering all theories. If your interest in Jack the Ripper is more passing, you'd do well to pass on this book. Cornwell undermines her case at the start, when she describes her feelings while walking on a city street at night. Her statements that she knew who Jack the Ripper was and that she wasn't wrong, especially as described in such an emotional context as urban fear, outweigh any sense of objectivity in the rest of the book.In the end, Cornwell offers more insistence than evidence that her theory hits the mark, let alone that it closes the case.
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