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Title: A little organization, please
Review: I suppose that Ms. Cornwell's choice of who Jack the Ripper was is just as plausible as the other suspects (if not more so). However, I thought that the book was poorly put together. The book was just not that well put together. It just seemed as if the chapters were just arbitrarily put into the book. The ending about the events at Sickert's second wife's funeral had absolutely nothing to do with the book (unless Ms. Cornwell was trying to input some type of symbology into the end, which I didn't catch). Ms. Cornwell did do what she wanted to do in this book because I am sold on the idea that Sickert was Jack the Ripper, I just don't think that this book was very well written. I do think that Ms. Cornwell did the best she could by going over what little evidence that was left in a case that is over 100 years old, but reading this book makes me hope that her fiction books are better written than her attempt to write non-fiction.
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