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Title: Cornwell the Ripper
Review: Ms. Cornwell rips apart Walter Sickert's reputation in an attempt to sell a book about Jack the Ripper. The only things that is made entirely clear in this book is that Ms. Cornwell really hates a dead artist named Walter Sickert and she has no proof that Sickert was Jack the Ripper. Apparently, it is not that difficult to pin a series of crimes on a dead man when one uses unreliable evidence.Ms. Cornwell does offer some interesting circumstantial evidence which makes me wish I could hear Sickert's side of the story. Or that there were any information about his location at the time of any of the crimes of which she accuses him. Or she had anything other than evidence that he may have written some letters signing them as Jack the Ripper.I hope she plans to return to righting full out fiction like the Scarpetta books and stays out of the historical fiction realm where she trys to be her character Kay Scarpetta.
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