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Portrait of a killer : Jack the Ripper--case closed / Patricia Cornwell.
Van Pelt Library HV6535.G43 L653 2002
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LIBRA HV6535.G43 L653 2002
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cornwell, Patricia Daniels.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Jack, the Ripper.
- Jack.
- Serial murders--England--London--History--19th century.
- Serial murders.
- England--London.
- History.
- Whitechapel (London, England)--History.
- Whitechapel (London, England).
- Physical Description:
- 387 pages, 48 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Putnam's, [2002]
- Summary:
- "New York Times" bestselling novelist Cornwell is known the world over for her brilliant storytelling. In this headline-making new work of nonfiction, Cornwell turns her trademark skills on one of the most chilling cases of serial murder in the history of crime--the slayings of Jack the Ripper that terrorized 1880s London.
- Contents:
- Chapter 1 Mr. Nobody 1
- Chapter 2 The Tour 8
- Chapter 3 The Unfortunates 16
- Chapter 4 By Some Person Unknown 31
- Chapter 5 A Glorious Boy 41
- Chapter 6 Walter and the Boys 59
- Chapter 7 The Gentleman Slummer 74
- Chapter 8 A Bit of Broken Looking Glass 86
- Chapter 9 The Dark Lantern 98
- Chapter 10 Medicine of the Courts 107
- Chapter 11 Summer Night 120
- Chapter 12 The Young and Beautiful 130
- Chapter 13 Hue and Cry 141
- Chapter 14 Crochet Work and Flowers 154
- Chapter 15 A Painted Letter 175
- Chapter 16 Stygian Blackness 193
- Chapter 17 The Streets Until Dawn 205
- Chapter 18 A Shiny Black Bag 219
- Chapter 19 These Characters About 229
- Chapter 20 Beyond Identity 241
- Chapter 21 A Great Joke 253
- Chapter 22 Barren Fields and Slag-Heaps 262
- Chapter 23 The Guest Book 277
- Chapter 24 In a Horse-Bin 289
- Chapter 25 Three Keys 300
- Chapter 26 The Daughters of Cobden 316
- Chapter 27 The Darkest Night in the Day 331
- Chapter 28 Further from the Grave 352.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [367]-379) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0399149325
- OCLC:
- 50518608
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