Portrait of a Killer: Jack the Ripper -- Case Closed

Cornwell, Patricia

| 2002

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In the fall of 1888, all of London was held in the grip of unspeakable terror. An elusive madman calling himself Jack the Ripper was brutally butchering women in the slums of London?s East End. Police seemed powerless to stop the killer, who delighted in taunting them and whose crimes were clearly escalating in violence from victim to victim. Then the Ripper?s violent spree seemingly ended as abruptly as it had begun. He had struck out of nowhere and then vanished from the scene. To No. 1 New York Times bestselling novelist Patricia Cornwell, the Jack the Ripper murders are not cute little mysteries to be transformed into parlor games or movies but rather a series of terrible crimes that no one should get away with, even after death. Cornwell applies her trademark skills for meticulous research and scientific expertise to dig deeper into the Ripper case than any detective before her...

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Stewn E

2016-03-19

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Det hr r omstndligt och taffligt skrivet,inte analytiskt och sakligt som jag hade hoppats.
Det r faktiskt s dligt att det r den andra boken i hela mitt snart 40-riga liv, som jag lmnar med ca tjugo sidor kvar till ml.
Jag orkar helt enkelt inte.
Och med tanke p all den research Cornwell faktiskt lagt ner r det vldigt synd.
Fr mnga "om", antaganden och alldeles fr lite dmjukhet.
Synd!

Maria Johnson

2011-02-22

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En intressant bok, men den r tjatig...

Josefine Ejebjrk

2009-07-25

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Hller med andra kommentarer, hon har verkligen bestmt sig frn brjan vem det r som r Jack the Ripper.

Cyd Vicious

2009-06-10

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Usch, avskyr den hr boken? Frfattaren har bestmt sig redan frn brjan vem om vill ska bara mrdaren och frsker f fakta att passa hennes id. Satsa p Donald Rumbelow eller Philip Sugden.