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.
“Still not sure how Cornwell has the gall to dodge the fact that Sickert appears to have been in France during the murders.”
That and the fact that if the Ripper wrote all those letters to the police as alleged by Cornwall he wouldn’t have enough time to be out a-rippin’!
(there were over 600 letters know today, from all sorts of postal places; London, France, Sweden, Germany, USA...)