Jack the Ripper Case Closed by Patricia Cornwell
Posted: Sep 30th 2003, 12:56 pm
Anybody read this one yet?
Any thoughts?
I just finished listening to the book. Its hard for me to get a good "read" (no pun intended) on this. Cornwell makes the argument for who she thinks the ripper is. The way she goes about it drives me nuts.
In the beginning she seems to vent about how angry she is with who she thinks the Ripper is and for those who supported the man in question. She also goes on tear about the use of "psycho babble" that some defense attorneys use. She turns around and seems to use similar language as means of dissecting her suspect.
At the end, there is no summation or what her final thoughts or feeling on the case is.
[spoiler]The book simply ends with the death of the suspects third wife in 1922. Literally describing the funeral, and then nothing. Cornwell's suspect died in 1942.[/spoiler]
On the plus side she does make a decent argument for a Ripper suspect that I have never heard about before.
LanceMan
Any thoughts?
I just finished listening to the book. Its hard for me to get a good "read" (no pun intended) on this. Cornwell makes the argument for who she thinks the ripper is. The way she goes about it drives me nuts.
In the beginning she seems to vent about how angry she is with who she thinks the Ripper is and for those who supported the man in question. She also goes on tear about the use of "psycho babble" that some defense attorneys use. She turns around and seems to use similar language as means of dissecting her suspect.
At the end, there is no summation or what her final thoughts or feeling on the case is.
[spoiler]The book simply ends with the death of the suspects third wife in 1922. Literally describing the funeral, and then nothing. Cornwell's suspect died in 1942.[/spoiler]
On the plus side she does make a decent argument for a Ripper suspect that I have never heard about before.
LanceMan