Sickert and the Ripper Crimes: The 1888 Ripper Murders and the Artist Walter Richard Sickert - Softcover

Fuller, Jean Overton

 
9781869928643: Sickert and the Ripper Crimes: The 1888 Ripper Murders and the Artist Walter Richard Sickert

Synopsis

In the autumn of 1888 London women lived under the shadow of the Ripper murders -- killings perhaps unmatched in their sadistic brutality. Florence Pash, friend and colleague of the painter Walter Sickert and herself an artist, confided to the author's mother when in her late eighties, a terrible story that she had kept even from those closest to her. Jean Overton Fuller draws on the new evidence of Florence Pash, and with her own artist's eye discovers clues in Sickert's pictures, pointing conclusively to the true identity of the Ripper...

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About the Author

Jean Overton Fuller (1915-2009) was a personal friend of Noor and the Inayat Khan family. Her account of Noors life and wartime work was based on extensive and in-depth research, including official documentation and extensive interviews with Noors family, friends, fellow SOE agents and administrators, Resistance members, Noors German interrogators and jailers, and other prisoners of war. "Noor-un-Nisa Inayat Khan: Madeleine" has become a classic and foundational resource for other researches and publications. Additional WW II titles by the same author include "The Starr Affai"r and "Dericourt, the Chequered Spy."

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