Ripper : the secret life of Walter Sickert

9781503936874

First edition

553 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour), maps ; 24 cm

"Incorporating material from Portrait of a Killer: Jack the Ripper--Case Closed, this new edition has been revised and expanded to include eight new chapters, detailed maps and hundreds of images that bring the sinister case to life."--Jacket flap
Includes bibliographical references (pages 511-528) and index

Mr. Nobody
The unfortunates
By some person unknown
A glorious boy
Thorns and sharp stones
Walter and the boys
The daughters of Cobden
The gentleman slummer
A bit of broken looking glass
The dark lantern
The royal conspiracy
Dreadful bleeding corpses
Instant death
Wide staring eyes
Red fingerprints
Hue and cry
Crochet work and flowers
A cautious indicator
A painted letter
A man in ordinary life
Stygian blackness
The streets until dawn
A shiny black bag
These characters about
Night horrors
A great joke
A social disease
A lovely sea side business
A very bad man
In a horse bin
Three keys
The darkest day of the darkest night
Sweet violets
Shapes on the wall
Further from the grave
My coda to Jack the Ripper
How it all began and never ended

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revision of: Cornwell, Patricia Daniels. Portrait of a killer