Description
Portrait of a Killer: Jack the Ripper, Case Closed is a nonfiction investigation by #1 New York Times bestselling author Patricia Cornwell, applying modern forensic science to one of history’s most infamous unsolved crimes.
Rather than treating the Jack the Ripper murders as legend or entertainment, Cornwell approaches the case as a real series of crimes that deserve resolution. Using archival documents, original evidence, forensic analysis, and consultation with law-enforcement experts and FBI profilers, she re-examines the case through the lens of twenty-first-century criminal investigation.
Cornwell argues that the killer was Walter Richard Sickert, a respected Victorian painter whose life, correspondence, and artwork she analyzes in detail. The book builds a cumulative case combining historical records, behavioral profiling, forensic findings, and contextual analysis of the period.
Portrait of a Killer is part true-crime investigation, part historical research, and part forensic argument, offering a controversial but meticulously constructed solution to a mystery that has endured for more than a century.
