by Patricia Daniels Cornwell · EDB FICCION · tapa dura · ISBN 9788466611022
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«Retrato de un asesino: Jack el Destripador Caso Cerrado» is Patricia Cornwell's criminal investigation, in hardcover from EDB Ficción (400 pages).
Between August and November 1888, seven women were murdered in the London district of Whitechapel and the case remained unsolved. Patricia Cornwell applies current forensic methods to the preserved evidence —letters, fingerprints, reports and photographs of the time— and concludes that Jack the Ripper was the painter Walter Sickert, fascinated by the city's underworld.
Original title: Portrait of a Killer: Jack the Ripper – Case Closed. Translated by María Eugenia Ciocchini. Published in 2003 in the La Trama collection.
For true crime readers and for those seeking a rigorous investigation into the identity of Jack the Ripper.
Patricia Cornwell is an American crime writer. She is known for her best-selling novels featuring medical examiner Kay Scarpetta, of which the first was inspired by a series of sensational murders in Richmond, Virginia, where most of the stories are set. The plots are notable for their emphasis on forensic science, which has influenced later TV treatments of police work. Cornwell has also accused Walter Sickert of carrying out the Jack the Ripper killings. However, Sickert is not considered a serious suspect by most who study the case, and strong evidence shows he spent most of 1888 outside the UK, and was in France at the time of most of the Ripper murders. Her books have sold more than 120 million copies.
