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Americas #1 bestselling crime writer solves the case that has baffled experts for more than a century.

Between August and November 1888, at least six women were murdered in Londons Whitechapel area. The gruesome nature of their deaths caused panic and fear in the East End for months, and gave rise to the sobriquet that was to become shorthand for a serial killerJack the Ripper.

For more than a hundred years the murders have remained among the worlds greatest unsolved crimes, and a wealth of theories have been posited which have pointed the finger at royalty, a barber, a doctor, a woman, and an artist. Using her formidable range of forensic and technical skills, bestselling author 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 answer lies within.

PORTRAIT OF A KILLER
JACK THE RIPPER
CASE CLOSED

Praise for Patricia Cornwells Kay Scarpetta novels...

THE LAST PRECINCT

Ignites on the first page... Cornwell has created a character so real, so compelling, so driven that this reader has to remind herself regularly that Scarpetta is just a product of an authors imagination.

USA Today

Plots within plots, fraught atmosphere, and unrelenting suspense keep readers on tenterhooks while one trap after another springs under unwary feet. Cunningly designed, ingeniously laid out, composed with Cornwellian skill, this far from The Last Precinct is a model of the art.

Los Angeles Times

BLACK NOTICE

Brainteasing... one of the most savage killers of her career... [a] hair-raising tale with a French twist.

People

The authors darkest and perhaps best... a fast-paced, first-rate thriller.

The San Francisco Examiner

POINT OF ORIGIN

Cornwell lights a fire under familiar charactersand sparks her hottest adventure in years.

People

Packed with action and suspense.

Rocky Mountain News

UNNATURAL EXPOSURE

Relentlessly intense... Stark and gripping... Scarpetta is back on her game and in peak form.

The New York Times Book Review

Thrilling... Once again we see the ingenuity and bravery that have made [Scarpetta] so appealing.

San Francisco Chronicle

CAUSE OF DEATH

Gripping reading... So hard to put down your arms will tingle with intimations of rigor mortis before you reach the smashing climax.

New York Newsday

Cause of Deathdescribes cutting-edge forensic techniques in fascinating detail. Dr. Scarpetta herself continues to fascinate, with a sensibility in which clinical objectivity and human concerns coexist convincingly.

The Wall Street Journal

FROM POTTERS FIELD

A terrific read, perhaps the best entry in the Scarpetta series yet.

New York Daily News

Complex and convincing... fascinating and original.

Los Angeles Times

THE BODY FARM

The Body Farmis Cornwell at her chilling best... A murdered child, a distraught mother, and clues that suggest the return of a serial killer... This one is chock-full of the very latest in dazzling forensic technology... [will] keep the reader pinned to the chair.

USA Today

Convincing... chilling.

Time

Praise for Patricia Cornwells police precinct thrillers...

ISLE OF DOGS

SOUTHERN CROSS

HORNETS NEST

Move over Carl Hiaasen, youve got company. Patricia Cornwell has switched to Hiaasens world of black humor and nearly conquers it.

The San Francisco Examiner

Cornwell has coined a new penny.

USA Today

A pluperfect page-turner that surpasses everything she has produced thus far.

The Columbia (SC) State

Awe-inspiring.

The Durham (NC) Herald-Sun

Cornwell brings an edgy authority, a gimlet eye for her city, and a taste for nonstop conflict to the police novel.

Kirkus Reviews

TITLES BY PATRICIA CORNWELL

SCARPETTA SERIES

Book of the Dead
Predator
Trace
Blow Fly
The Last Precinct
Black Notice
Point of Origin
Unnatural Exposure
Cause of Death
From Potters Field
The Body Farm
Cruel & Unusual
All That Remains
Body of Evidence
Postmortem

ANDY BRAZIL SERIES

Isle of Dogs
Southern Cross
Hornets Nest

OTHER FICTION

At Risk

NONFICTION

Portrait of a Killer: Jack the RipperCase Closed

BIOGRAPHY

Ruth, A Portrait: The Story of Ruth Bell Graham
(also published as A Time for Remembering:
The Story of Ruth Bell Graham)

OTHER WORKS

Food to Die For: Secrets from Kay Scarpettas Kitchen
Lifes Little Fable
Scarpettas Winter Table

To Scotland Yards John Grieve

You would have caught him.

There was a general panic, a great many excitable people declaring that the evil one was revisiting the earth.

H. M., ANONYMOUS EAST END MISSIONARY, 1888

CHAPTER ONE

MR. NOBODY

Monday, August 6, 1888, was a bank holiday in London. The city was a carnival of wondrous things to do for as little as pennies if one could spare a few.

The bells of Windsors Parish Church and St. Georges Chapel rang throughout the day. Ships were dressed in flags, and royal salutes boomed from cannons to celebrate the Duke of Edinburghs forty-fourth birthday.

The Crystal Palace offered a dazzling spectrum of special programs: organ recitals, military band concerts, a monster display of fireworks, a grand fairy ballet, ventriloquists, and world famous minstrel performances. Madame Tussauds featured a special wax model of Frederick II lying in state and, of course, the ever-popular Chamber of Horrors. Other delicious horrors awaited those who could afford theater tickets and were in the mood for a morality play or just a good old-fashioned fright. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde was playing to sold-out houses. The famous American actor Richard Mansfield was brilliant as Jekyll and Hyde at Henry Irvings Lyceum, and the Opera Comique had its version, too, although poorly reviewed and in the midst of a scandal because the theater had adapted Robert Louis Stevensons novel without permission.

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