PORTRAIT OF A KILLER

G. P. Putnam, New York, 2002, 1^st pr.  ISBN 0-399-14932-5.  Hard cover, 387 pages including acknowledgements, Bibliography, and Index.  Good plus; binding sound with headbands; slight flare to front board, bumping and wear to top front corner.  Dust jacket with price intact shows light edge wear, wear at corners and spine ends, some cover wear with light rubs, creases and scratches.  A bit of colour transference from front end paper onto fore-edges of first two pages; remainder of interior clean and unmarked; illustrated with sepia photos.  ‘Between August and November 1888, at least seven women were murdered in London’s Whitechapel area … and gave rise to the sobriquet that was to become shorthand for a serial killer – Jack the Ripper. … Using her formidable range of forensic and technical skills, Patricia Cornwell has applied the rigorous discipline of twenty-first-century police investigation to the extant material, and here presents the hard evidence that the perpetrator was the world-famous artist Walter Sickert.’ (from front flap)