Ripper: The Secret Life of Walter Sickert

by Patricia Cornwell

uproar. At the time of my original research I wasn’t aware that anyone had explained

a surgeon’s experience and rank. Cleanliness was considered to be finicky and

one doesn’t forget, and Sickert wouldn’t have. More than anyone else he would have

2001, I asked the institute’s codirector,

drawing what I saw and sending the information to Bower. He called to let me know

It seems she’d stripped down to her chemise before the Ripper slashed her throat and cut

out with a personal letter. It was dated October 6, 2006, although I didn’t get it until