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Portrait of a Killer: Jack the Ripper--Case Closed
Table of Contents
CHAPTER THREE - THE UNFORTUNATES
CHAPTER FOUR - BY SOME PERSON UNKNOWN
CHAPTER SIX - WALTER AND THE BOYS
CHAPTER SEVEN - THE GENTLEMAN SLUMMER
CHAPTER EIGHT - A BIT OF BROKEN LOOKING GLASS
CHAPTER NINE - THE DARK LANTERN
CHAPTER TEN - MEDICINE OF THE COURTS
CHAPTER TWELVE - THE YOUNG AND BEAUTIFUL
CHAPTER THIRTEEN - HUE AND CRY
CHAPTER FOURTEEN - CROCHET WORK AND FLOWERS
CHAPTER FIFTEEN - A PAINTED LETTER
CHAPTER SIXTEEN - STYGIAN BLACKNESS
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN - THE STREETS UNTIL DAWN
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN - A SHINY BLACK BAG
CHAPTER NINETEEN - THESE CHARACTERS ABOUT
CHAPTER TWENTY - BEYOND IDENTITY
CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE - A GREAT JOKE
CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO - BARREN FIELDS AND SLAG-HEAPS
CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE - THE GUEST BOOK
CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR - IN A HORSE-BIN
CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE - THREE KEYS
CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX - THE DAUGHTERS OF COBDEN
CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN - THE DARKEST NIGHT IN THE DAY
CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT - FURTHER FROM THE GRAVE
APPENDIX - MITOCHONDRIAL DNA RESULTS
BK4173 PORTRAIT OF KILLER FRAUX
America’s #1 bestselling crime writer solves the case that has baffled experts for more than a century.
Between August and November 1888, at least six women were murdered in London’s Whitechapel area. The gruesome nature of their deaths caused panic and fear in the East End for months, and gave rise to the sobriquet that was to become shorthand for a serial killer—Jack the Ripper.
For more than a hundred years the murders have remained among the world’s greatest unsolved crimes, and a wealth of theories have been posited which have pointed the finger at royalty, a barber, a doctor, a woman, and an artist. Using her formidable range of forensic and technical skills, bestselling author Patricia Cornwell has applied the rigorous discipline of twenty-first-century police investigation to the extant material, and here presents the hard evidence that the perpetrator was . . .
The answer lies within.
PORTRAIT OF A KILLER
JACK THE RIPPER
CASE CLOSED
Praise for Patricia Cornwell’s Kay Scarpetta novels . . .
THE LAST PRECINCT
“
Ignites on the first page
. . . Cornwell has created a character so real, so compelling, so driven that this reader has to remind herself regularly that Scarpetta is just a product of an author’s imagination.”
—
USA Today
“
Plots within plots, fraught atmosphere, and unrelenting suspense
keep readers on tenterhooks while one trap after another springs under unwary feet. Cunningly designed, ingeniously laid out, composed with Cornwellian skill, this far from
The Last Precinct
is a model of the art.”
—
Los Angeles Times
BLACK NOTICE
“
Brainteasing
. . . one of the most savage killers of her career . . . [a] hair-raising tale with a French twist.”
—
People
“
The author’s darkest and perhaps best
. . . a fast-paced, first-rate thriller.”
—
The San Francisco Examiner
POINT OF ORIGIN
“
Cornwell lights a fire under familiar characters
—and sparks her hottest adventure in years.”
—
People
“Packed with action and suspense.”
—
Rocky Mountain News
UNNATURAL EXPOSURE
“
Relentlessly intense . . . Stark and gripping
. . . Scarpetta is back on her game and in peak form.”
—
The New York Times Book Review
“
Thrilling
. . . Once again we see the ingenuity and bravery that have made [Scarpetta] so appealing.”
—
San Francisco Chronicle
CAUSE OF DEATH
“
Gripping reading
. . . So hard to put down your arms will tingle with intimations of rigor mortis before you reach the smashing climax.”
—
New York Newsday
“
Cause of Death
describes cutting-edge forensic techniques
in fascinating detail. Dr. Scarpetta herself continues to fascinate, with a sensibility in which clinical objectivity and human concerns coexist convincingly.”
—
The Wall Street Journal
FROM POTTER’S FIELD
“
A terrific read,
perhaps the best entry in the Scarpetta series yet.”
—
New York Daily News
“
Complex and convincing
. . . fascinating and original.”
—
Los Angeles Times
THE BODY FARM
“
The Body Farm
is Cornwell at her chilling best
. . . A murdered child, a distraught mother, and clues that suggest the return of a serial killer . . . This one is chock-full of the very latest in dazzling forensic technology . . . [will] keep the reader pinned to the chair.”
—
USA Today
“Convincing . . . chilling.”
—
Time
Praise for Patricia Cornwell’s police precinct thrillers . . .
ISLE OF DOGS
SOUTHERN CROSS
HORNET’S NEST
“
Move over Carl Hiaasen, you’ve got company
. Patricia Cornwell has switched to Hiaasen’s world of black humor and nearly conquers it.”
—
The San Francisco Examiner
“Cornwell has coined a new penny.”
—
USA Today
“
A pluperfect page-turner
that surpasses everything she has produced thus far.”
—
The Columbia (SC) State
“Awe-inspiring.”
—
The Durham (NC) Herald-Sun
“
Cornwell brings an edgy authority
, a gimlet eye for her city, and a taste for nonstop conflict to the police novel.”
—
Kirkus Reviews
TITLES BY PATRICIA CORNWELL
SCARPETTA SERIES
Book of the Dead
Predator
Trace
Blow Fly
The Last Precinct
Black Notice
Point of Origin
Unnatural Exposure
Cause of Death
From Potter’s Field
The Body Farm
Cruel & Unusual
All That Remains
Body of Evidence
Postmortem
ANDY BRAZIL SERIES
Isle of Dogs
Southern Cross
Hornet’s Nest
OTHER FICTION
At Risk
NONFICTION
Portrait of a Killer: Jack the Ripper—Case Closed
BIOGRAPHY
Ruth, A Portrait: The Story of Ruth Bell Graham
(
also published as
A Time for Remembering:
The Story of Ruth Bell Graham)
OTHER WORKS
Food to Die For: Secrets from Kay Scarpetta’s Kitchen
Life’s Little Fable
Scarpetta’s Winter Table
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To Scotland Yard’s John Grieve
You would have caught him.
There was a general panic, a great many excitable people declaring that the evil one was revisiting the earth.
—H. M., ANONYMOUS EAST END MISSIONARY, 1888
CHAPTER ONE
MR. NOBODY
M
onday, August 6, 1888, was a bank holiday in London. The city was a carnival of wondrous things to do for as little as pennies if one could spare a few.