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Retrato de um Assassino - Portrait of a Killer - Portuguese
Author: Patricia Cornwell, Manoel Paulo Ferreira

Patricia Cornwell se propõe a solucionar um dos maiores mistérios do mundo do crime - descobrir a verdadeira identidade de Jack, o Estripador. Utilizando técnicas modernas de investigação, a autora concluiu que o Jack era o pintor inglês Walter Sickert. 'Retrato de um Assassino' analisa as circuns... more »tâncias dos crimes e reconstrói o ambiente em que viviam as prostitutas londrinas mortas pelo serial killer.

In Portrait of a Killer: Jack the Ripper, Case Closed, Cornwell combines the rigorous discipline of twenty-first century police investigation with forensic techniques undreamed of during the late Victorian era to solve one of the most infamous and difficult serial murder cases in history. Drawing on unparalleled access to original Ripper evidence, documents, and records, as well as archival, academic, and law-enforcement resources, FBI profilers, and top forensic scientists, Cornwell reveals that Jack the Ripper was none other than a respected painter of his day, an artist now collected by some of the world’s finest museums: Walter Richard Sickert.

It has been said of Cornwell that no one depicts the human capability for evil better than she. Adding layer after layer of circumstantial evidence to the physical evidence discovered by modern forensic science and expert minds, Cornwell shows that Sickert, who died peacefully in his bed in 1942, at the age of 81, was not only one of Great Britain’s greatest painters but also a serial killer, a damaged diabolical man driven by megalomania and hate. She exposes Sickert as the author of the infamous Ripper letters that were written to the Metropolitan Police and the press. Her detailed analysis of his paintings shows that his art continually depicted his horrific mutilation of his victims, and her examination of this man’s birth defects, the consequent genital surgical interventions, and their effects on his upbringing present a casebook example of how a psychopathic killer is created.

With her knowledge of criminal investigation and her consummate skills as a bestselling writer, Patricia Cornwell has produced a book that is as compelling as it is authentic and pays due respect to the people whose early deaths spawned one of the twentieth century's least attractive entertainment industries. Portrait of a Killer is also a subtle tribute to the men and women who conduct modern forensic investigations and the technology they use. “When it’s all said and done,” says Cornwell, “the point of all this is to take what we know and apply it to the living.”

Portuguese Edition

ISBN-13: 9788535904413
ISBN-10: 8535904417
Publication Date: 2003
Pages: 358
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Publisher: Companhia das Letras
Book Type: Paperback
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