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  <title><![CDATA[Portrait of a Killer: Jack The Ripper - Case Closed]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Patricia Cornwell]]></name>
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  <read_at>Fri Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was not what I expected.  I thought it would be a sort of historical re-cap of the Jack the Ripper killings with Cornwell revealing the person that she thought to be the killer, with evidence to substantiate her opinion.  I did not expect to be lectured over and over and beaten over the head wi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5120932">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="18709483">
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    <name><![CDATA[Stacey]]></name>
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  <date_added>Wed Mar 26 15:34:19 -0700 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[For weeks, I attempted to finish Patricia Cornwell's &quot;Portrait of a Killer: Jack the Ripper, Case Closed&quot; I haven't written a real book review, (or even been inclined to write one,) since High School English Lit., but this book frustrated me enough to write one.<br/><br/>I've heard from ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/18709483">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="4814310">
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    <name><![CDATA[Kph]]></name>
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  <read_at>Sun Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
  <date_added>Mon Aug 20 10:39:54 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Aug 20 11:24:30 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[   so, patricia cornwell has solved the ripper case. she's convinced she has; and she doesn't tire to try to convince you, too. which makes portrait of a killer an extremely annoying read. you'll be forced to wade through plenty of the brackwater of standard bourgeois reaction to anything and anybod...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4814310">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="45728519">
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    <name><![CDATA[Bo]]></name>
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  <read_at>Thu Feb 12 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Sun Feb 08 08:06:01 -0800 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[ms. cornwell clearly did her research, and i applaud her for that. many of us wouldn't have waded through piles and piles of 100-year-old documents.<br/><br/>but i don't completely buy her argument. i will agree that sickert sounds like a disturbed fellow, and i've since looked at his paintings an...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45728519">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="35681071">
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  <date_added>Sun Oct 19 07:37:44 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Jul 13 12:28:40 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Despite the rather presumptuous sub-title of &quot;case closed&quot;, Cornwell doesn't prove her thesis.  In fact, this book is a text book for how NOT to write a book that solves a historical mystery.<br/><br/>Problems<br/>1. Cornwall has never heard of footnotes.<br/><br/>2. She does not full...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/35681071">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="3272491">
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  <date_updated>Thu Jul 19 11:03:25 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I liked this book because Patricia Cornwall presented quite a stirring case for her argument that the killer was a rather famous artist named Walter Sickert. She compared pictures painted by the artist with photos from the crime scene and of the victims, postmortem, and the similarities gave me shiv...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3272491">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="2723902">
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      <rating>5</rating>
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[History and true crime fans]]></recommended_for>
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  <read_at>Sun Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[It's interesting to observe how &quot;common knowledge&quot; sometimes lags behind real knowledge. Just the other day, I heard someone on television say what I've heard all my life: that the true identity of Jack the Ripper has never been discovered. <br/><br/>Not true. Patricia Cornwell figured o...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2723902">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="2324200">
    <user id="145662">
    <name><![CDATA[Michelle]]></name>
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  <read_at>Sun Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2006</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I admit to having a great interest in the Jack the Ripper case and have for many years.  I was interested to see what Cornwell could come up with as to who could have done the killing.  I was thoroughly disappointed with this book.  It was basically filled with Cornwell's guesses that she put out as...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2324200">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="5289460">
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  <read_at>Mon Feb 18 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Patricia Cornwell has more money than sense.  I can't believe that she spent a million dollars of her own money to research the true identity of Jack the Ripper.....and, despite the title, she has come away with little to no proof - she relies a great deal on mitochondrial DNA evidence that she admi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5289460">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="16757757">
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  <date_added>Sat Mar 01 07:00:33 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Jul 07 03:43:47 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[The subject is undoubtely fascinating and the research for the identification of the man who started scraring to death the women of London in 1888 is intriguing. <br/><br/>Although the precision of details and the well-informed recontruction of events and characters the book did not entirely catch...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/16757757">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="3920538">
    <user id="240185">
    <name><![CDATA[Kelly]]></name>
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  <read_at>Tue Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2004</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Man, I had this whole summer of reading books I thought I'd love but didn't (Da Vinci Code, Under the Banner of Heaven, and this). So I wasn't quite as disappointed with this one as the other two, but it's not good. I love Patricia Cornwell's mysteries (although they're definitely guilty pleasures),...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3920538">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="39859364">
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  <read_at>Mon Nov 01 00:00:00 -0800 2004</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[(copied from my amazon review)<br/>If a prosecutor went to court and presented a case against Walter Sickert with the evidence the author gives us in this book, the judge would laugh hysterically and require of the prosecutor to chose another profession. <br/><br/>So let's see what are some of th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39859364">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="75282501">
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  <date_added>Wed Oct 21 13:43:16 -0700 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[I love Patricia Cornwell's fiction books...and that's where I think her strength is...in fiction. Portrait of a Killer is an interesting account of her discoveries while investigating the 114 year old Jack the Ripper case. Cornwell asserts that the identity of Jack the Ripper is Walter Richard Sicke...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/75282501">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="75503457">
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    <name><![CDATA[Carol]]></name>
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    <body><![CDATA[I don't read Patricia Cornwell's books because I'm not a fan of murder fiction. I prefer nonfiction to fiction. However, this book is a nonfiction book about Jack the Ripper, a serial killer in Victorian London during the 1880's. Cornwell believes the killer is painter/actor Walter Richard Sickert. ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/75503457">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="39514020">
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    <name><![CDATA[Dani]]></name>
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  <read_at>Fri Dec 19 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book was recommended to me, and I'm not quite sure why they thought I would like it.<br/><br/>Cornwell hops around from topic to topic, with no apparent rhyme or reason to her writing. It didn't follow chronologically. I flipped through looking for a timeline that would put the events in pers...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39514020">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="62171772">
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    <name><![CDATA[Aaronlisa]]></name>
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  <read_at>Thu Jul 16 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I refused to give this book a rating. In this book, Ms. Cornwell would like her readers to believe that she has managed to do the impossible. She has managed to solve one of the most notorious crimes and she claims that Walter Sickert is Jack the Ripper. <br/><br/>Although she does bring up some v...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/62171772">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="55828813">
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  <date_added>Tue May 12 13:04:48 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue May 12 13:04:58 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Patricia Cornwell makes an interesting case on who Jack the Ripper maybe and in all honesty, she is very convincing. Whether you agree with her or not, definitely read this almost biographical study on the first known serial killer of the 20th century. <br/><br/>The reader will learn about life in...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/55828813">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I usually do not read true crime books. As much as I love forensic novels, they are usually fiction because then I don't have to worry about them being real. I can dismiss them as fiction and not obsess about the bad things that happen. However, as I have read so many of Ms. Cornwell's books, I deci...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/46545515">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Fri Sep 04 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I was fairly skeptical about this book, given that most Ripperology sites/groups discard Cornwell's hypothesis as impossibly, but I must say that while she has not convinced me that we now know the Ripper's identity, her meticulously researched true-crime book brings to light some very mysterious an...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/67225827">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon Aug 17 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Mon Aug 17 14:56:30 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read 1/4 of this book, studied all the pictures of evidance throughout it, and then had to stop. The book is basically a large thesis proving that artist William Sickert was Jack The Ripper. I thought the whole concept was incredibly facinating and loved reading about all of the evidence that seem...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/67019355">more...</a>]]></body>
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