Portrait of a Killer: Jack the Ripper, Case Closed

Cornwell, Patricia Daniels , With Laid In Signature Of Signature Of Likely "Jack The Ripper" Walter Sickert

ISBN 10: 0316861596 / ISBN 13: 9780316861595

Verlag: Little, Brown, London, 2002

Hardcover, 1St Uklk Edition. Fine Book In Fine Dj, Signed By Cornwell On Title Page. With The Signature Of Walter Sickert Clipped From A Letter, With His Closing Comments To Mrs. Patrick Campbell, Popular And Racy London Beauty. Sickert Is The Person Identified As The Likely Person Who Was The Killer Known As Jack The Ripper. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 022673

Inhaltsangabe:

Using the firsthand expertise she has gained through writing the bestselling Dr Kay Scarpetta novels, Patricia Cornwell utilizes the demanding methods of modern forensic investigation to re-examine the evidence in the Jack the Ripper murders. These include state-of-the-art DNA testing on various materials, computer enhancement of watermarks and expert examinations of hand-writing, paper, inks and other relics. She also uses her knowledge of profiling on the possible suspects, as well as consulting experts in the field. On presenting her conclusions to a very senior Metropolitan Police officer she learns that had the investigators of the time been presented with the facts she has unearthed, her suspect would definitely have been arrested and would probably have faced trial. Naming the killer as the artist, Walter Sickert, Cornwell details the reasons and evidence for this conclusion.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor:

Patricia Cornwell's first crime novel, Postmortem, was published in 1990 and became the first novel to win all the major crime awards in a single year. In 2008 Cornwell won the Galaxy British Book Awards' Books Direct Crime Thriller of the Year - the first American ever to win this award. In 2011 she was awarded the Medal of Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters.

Often interviewed on US national television as a forensic consultant, Cornwell is a founder of the Virginia Institute of Forensic Science and Medicine; a founding member of the National Forensic Academy; a member of the Advisory Board for the Forensic Sciences Training Program at the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, NYC and a member of the Harvard-affiliated McLean Hospital's National Council, where she is an advocate for psychiatric research.

Fox have acquired the film rights to the Scarpetta novels, featuring Angelina Jolie as Dr Kay Scarpetta. Cornwell's books are translated into thirty-six languages across more than fifty countries, and she is regarded as one of the major international bestselling authors.

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Portrait of a Killer: Jack the Ripper, Case ...
Verlag: Little, Brown, London
Erscheinungsdatum: 2002
Einband: Black Cloth
Zustand: Fine
Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine DJ
Signiert: Signed by Author(s)
Auflage: First UK Edition