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Title: Cornwell needed an editor with a big, sharp knife
Review: That letters written by Sickert and Jack the Ripper came from the same batch of stationery, and a batch of only 24 sheets, is Cornwell's best evidence--and pretty good evidence, at that. But you could easily miss that skimming through because nobody's going to read this book word for word. Do we really need every speculation that's ever crossed her mind about what a sicky Sickert is?I guess she couldn't get permission to reproduce the paintings of mutilated women which support her argument. Instead we get several photos of Sickert which "show his many faces"--Not. Frankly, he looks intelligent and kindly and not a bulgy-eyed maniac like, say, Ted Bundy.My suggestion for further research: get Don Foster to do a professional comparison of Sickert's and Jack the Ripper's language and publish an article about it rather than a book.
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