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I don't know if this comment fits in the article, but I've read the new book (2nd edition?) and found it absolutely terrible. For the first time in my life I felt that I should retrun the book to the bookstore for a full refund.
For what it is worth, she seems to show that the paper used to write some of the letters was available to Sickert. But there is a long way from that to saying that Sickert is J the R. 205.147.242.4 14:54, 15 August 2006 (UTC)
What does this mean? "The fact that she invested a reported 1 million dollars during her 'research' would precipitate a well known figure being named as the guilty party in her work." Rich Farmbrough 11:00 27 August 2006 (GMT).
This entire page is crying out for citations. Which critics mentioned these things? When?-- Nalvage 20:47, 28 November 2006 (UTC)
Personaly, I feel that maybe there's more to this book than meets the eye. In fact, Sickert's own wife once admitted that there was no real way of telling where her husband was on any given day. 24.79.5.32 22:06, 30 April 2007 (UTC)
Patricia Cornwell seems to have gone completely nuts. Her promotion of this tosh seems to coincide with the decline in quality of her Scarpetta books - as I recall she claimed that negative reviews of those were also a 'conspiracy' against her! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.145.252.66 ( talk) 12:50, 29 January 2010 (UTC)
Something should be added concerning the fact that in interviews preceding and immediately after publication, Cornwell made misleading statements about her case being supported by DNA, while in the book itself being forced to admit that the DNA "evidence" was inconclusive at best, meaningless at worse.
Where did she say this? This article is useless if it appears to be entirely hearsay. ( Saboater 13:53, 31 May 2007 (UTC))
Originally it appeared on Cornwell's webpage as a follow-up to the hardcover edition of Portrait of a Killer. Supposedly the paperback edition contains update information, so perhaps the paper evidence made it to that version.
It is proved, but you canot accept the truth. she did prove it, and he is the "jack" killer. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 219.101.196.2 ( talk) 13:07, 5 September 2012 (UTC)
The result of the move request was: page moved. Vegaswikian ( talk) 21:02, 17 March 2012 (UTC)
Portrait of a Killer →
Portrait of a Killer: Jack the Ripper—Case Closed – I moved this page to its present title to eliminate the double hyphen from its previous one.
User: Wahrmund has asked that the subtitle be restored.
Justlettersandnumbers (
talk) 21:18, 10 March 2012 (UTC)
Today's Daily Mail reports that DNA research on evidence made available by a collector has definitively identified Jack the Ripper as Aaron Kosminski. Kosminski was a polish immigrant who had previously been suspected. Since the article is in advance of the release of a book about the DNA studies done, I thought it was worth a mention, but not a change. The article Jack the Ripper Unmaskedlays out a convincing case. Seorsa Seorsa ( talk) 20:17, 8 September 2014 (UTC)
The result of the move request was: Moved. ( closed by non-admin page mover) -- Calidum 19:42, 15 October 2020 (UTC)
Portrait of a Killer: Jack the Ripper—Case Closed → Portrait of a Killer – Per WP:SUBTITLE. 207.161.86.162 ( talk) 03:34, 30 September 2020 (UTC)—Relisting. —usernamekiran (talk) 03:41, 7 October 2020 (UTC)
...if she were a man or British, her theory [of Sickert as the Ripper] would have been accepted.
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I don't know if this comment fits in the article, but I've read the new book (2nd edition?) and found it absolutely terrible. For the first time in my life I felt that I should retrun the book to the bookstore for a full refund.
For what it is worth, she seems to show that the paper used to write some of the letters was available to Sickert. But there is a long way from that to saying that Sickert is J the R. 205.147.242.4 14:54, 15 August 2006 (UTC)
What does this mean? "The fact that she invested a reported 1 million dollars during her 'research' would precipitate a well known figure being named as the guilty party in her work." Rich Farmbrough 11:00 27 August 2006 (GMT).
This entire page is crying out for citations. Which critics mentioned these things? When?-- Nalvage 20:47, 28 November 2006 (UTC)
Personaly, I feel that maybe there's more to this book than meets the eye. In fact, Sickert's own wife once admitted that there was no real way of telling where her husband was on any given day. 24.79.5.32 22:06, 30 April 2007 (UTC)
Patricia Cornwell seems to have gone completely nuts. Her promotion of this tosh seems to coincide with the decline in quality of her Scarpetta books - as I recall she claimed that negative reviews of those were also a 'conspiracy' against her! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.145.252.66 ( talk) 12:50, 29 January 2010 (UTC)
Something should be added concerning the fact that in interviews preceding and immediately after publication, Cornwell made misleading statements about her case being supported by DNA, while in the book itself being forced to admit that the DNA "evidence" was inconclusive at best, meaningless at worse.
Where did she say this? This article is useless if it appears to be entirely hearsay. ( Saboater 13:53, 31 May 2007 (UTC))
Originally it appeared on Cornwell's webpage as a follow-up to the hardcover edition of Portrait of a Killer. Supposedly the paperback edition contains update information, so perhaps the paper evidence made it to that version.
It is proved, but you canot accept the truth. she did prove it, and he is the "jack" killer. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 219.101.196.2 ( talk) 13:07, 5 September 2012 (UTC)
The result of the move request was: page moved. Vegaswikian ( talk) 21:02, 17 March 2012 (UTC)
Portrait of a Killer →
Portrait of a Killer: Jack the Ripper—Case Closed – I moved this page to its present title to eliminate the double hyphen from its previous one.
User: Wahrmund has asked that the subtitle be restored.
Justlettersandnumbers (
talk) 21:18, 10 March 2012 (UTC)
Today's Daily Mail reports that DNA research on evidence made available by a collector has definitively identified Jack the Ripper as Aaron Kosminski. Kosminski was a polish immigrant who had previously been suspected. Since the article is in advance of the release of a book about the DNA studies done, I thought it was worth a mention, but not a change. The article Jack the Ripper Unmaskedlays out a convincing case. Seorsa Seorsa ( talk) 20:17, 8 September 2014 (UTC)
The result of the move request was: Moved. ( closed by non-admin page mover) -- Calidum 19:42, 15 October 2020 (UTC)
Portrait of a Killer: Jack the Ripper—Case Closed → Portrait of a Killer – Per WP:SUBTITLE. 207.161.86.162 ( talk) 03:34, 30 September 2020 (UTC)—Relisting. —usernamekiran (talk) 03:41, 7 October 2020 (UTC)
...if she were a man or British, her theory [of Sickert as the Ripper] would have been accepted.