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Title: Speculation....pure speculation
Review: I have read many articles and books on Jack the Ripper, each proposing a different suspect, but this is the most outrageous.Too many sentences start with phrases like "Just imagine...." or "How about if....." for it to be truly fact-based (as a book like this should be). While the basic theory may be interesting, it is haphazard at best in this book and is not convincing at all. Just because Sickert painted scenes that could be construed as "Ripperish" does not mean he was there. Another poster has stated that artists paint what they are interested in..... This does not necessarily mean they were INVOLVED. While I did find the book to be a good read, I did not find it to be a good work of non-fiction--too much speculation and too many "What ifs" for that.
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