John Rees (USA: CA) (2007/02/08): As some one from Britain reading a book about JTR writing by an American NOVELIST!! i found it to be a very good historical reference about London and its people in the late 1800s,but as for proving that Sickert was JTR i found this book totally inconclusive in that area.Many painters and writers of this period had the same strange whims and habits as Sickert,so you could probably attribute JTR to another 10 artistes or so of this time. Patricia stick to writing novels this is not your genre... Marianne (Australia) (2011/02/27): Patricia Cornwell’s non-fiction offering, “Portrait of a Killer: Jack the Ripper – Case Closed” is filled with meticulous detail about Jack the Ripper’s murders. Cornwell brings modern forensic techniques into the investigation of this 122 year-old case in an effort to prove that Jack the Ripper was Walter Sickert, an artist and actor. Although the detail made the theory interesting, the book was quite slow-moving in parts. While the use of mitochondrial DNA and handwriting analysis may seem to implicate Sickert, I didn’t find it convincing enough to merit the descriptor “Case Closed”.
