Portrait of a Killer. Jack the Ripper - Case Closed

London England: Little, Brown & Company. Near Fine/Very Good. 2002. First Edition. Cloth. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall Octavo 0316861596 Hardback Hardback. Portrait of a Killer. Shelf wear to edge and corners of D/J. The author has applied the rigorous discipline of twenty-first-applied police investigation to the extant material, and here presents the hard evidence that the perpetrator of the Whitechapel; murders was the world famous artist, Walter Sickert. By using techniques unknown in the late Victorian era, the author has exposed Sickert as the author of the infamous Ripper letters to the Metropolitan Police. Her detailed analysis of his paintings show how his art continually depicted his horrific mutilation of his victims, and her examination of this man's birth defects, the consequent genital surgical interventions and their effects on his upbringing present a casebook example of how a psychopathic killer is created. With her knowledge of criminal investigation and her consummate skills as a bestselling writer, Patricia Cornwell has produced a book which is as compelling as it is authentic and pays due respect to the people whose early deaths spawned one of the twentieth century's least attractive entertainment industries - those of Mary Ann Nichols, Annie Chapman, Elizabeth Stride, Catherine Eddows, Mary Kelly and others. Illustrated. 387 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions, Reference books ,and all types of Academic Literature.) .