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Title: Speculative and disappointing
Review: I love Patricia Cornwall's "Kay Scarpetta" mysteries...they are well written and entertaining fare. I was so overwhelmingly disappointed with her "Isle of Dogs," as a departure that I decided to give her Jack the Ripper foray a read. I found it rather dull and, more strikingly, short on fact and rife with conjecture. That's no way for a criminalist to report!Most of the 350+ pages are spent with "what if's" and extranneous fodder on modern CSI. She does not make a solid case against artists Sickert.The Ripper slayings remain fascinating and, as many believe unlike Cornwall, unsolved.
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