[Vinnie]

Almost as unconvincing as Patricia Cornwell’s atrocious attempt to finger the artist Walter Sickert as Jack.

I'm about half way through her book right now.

Whether Sickert was the Ripper or not, the mutilations the Ripper performed on these women certainly didn't require him being a surgeon.

[Tredegar]

You’re quite right Vinnie. The problem with Cornwell is she started with a solution, and tried to cobble together (VERY dubious) evidence to fit her theory, rather than the other way around. Still not sure how Cornwell has the gall to dodge the fact that Sickert appears to have been in France during the murders. Prepare to be disappointed with that book.

Sickert and the nonsensical ‘Royal Conspiracy’ drive me up the wall. The case is fascinating enough without the need for fantasy.