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Title: An editorial nightmare
Review: Where was her editor? Although Ms. Cornwell's prose is well-written, the ideas in this book jump around in a very distracting manner. Just when she is developing one idea or factual scenario, she will go off on a tangent and either not finish the first idea or come back to it so much later that the reader has forgotten where he was. It's as if the whole book were written as an initial draft and any ideas that popped into her head ("that reminds me") were added right then and there.I thought her premise and much of her evidence were quite interesting, and I learned a great deal about the Ripper cases, which I have always found fascinating. However, I never thought that a writer of Ms. Cornwell's caliber and ability would publish a book so amateurishly constructed. Her points could have been made far more forcefully had the book been better organized.
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