SUMMARY: The mystery surrounding Jack the Ripper's seven terrifying slayings in the fall of 1888 remains as fresh now as then; the killer was never identified beyond a doubt. In this heavily researched study of Jack the Ripper's killings, Patricia Cornwell uses her masterful intuition into the criminal mind and forensic examination of physical evidence such as documents, reports, fingerprints, crime scene photographs, original etchings and paintings, items of clothing, artists' paraphernalia, and traces of DNA, to reach a firm conclusion as to the true identity of this elusive madman.
