PORTRAIT OF A KILLER

I'M A BIG FAN OF Patricia Cornwell, author of Portrait of a Killer : Jack the Ripper Case Closed, Unnatural Exposure, Cause of Death and the Last Precint to mention a few. Cornwell is a genius in creating a fine and convincing true-crime thriller, I even made a Jack-The-Ripper research myself and delve into the boigraphy of artist Walter Richard Sickert (while reading the book), she (Cornwell) made me so curious about Sickert for they were real murders by mutilation, it was a real case and Sickert was one real artist.

Walter Sickert (born May 31, 1860) works of art himself, blue eyes, and blond hair, symmetrical face, nice slender body, so the picture said.... Man of many talents, painter, an etcher, actor, writer, linguist and art criticwere enough to caught my attention. Not to mention, one of England's most important artists. These gave me all the reason to read the novel over and over again. What mafe him did all those kilings?

Walter Sickert as convinced by the novel ( no offense to Sickert's fans...and please don't judge me for being shallow believing in a novel)... again sickert as convinced by the novel was Jack the Ripper, Jack the Ripper was walter Sickert, yeah i made my point already. Jack the Ripper - The madman in the 18th Century killing fiasco in London was a true blooded artist. Yes, an artist by profession and by heart. Among Sickert's works were the "Ennui" (with 5 versions), Nuit d’été (“Summer Night”), Patrol, Jack the Ripper's Bedroom. He was Patronized by many including the Queen Elizabeth.

His artworks are so full of detailed emotions and are well made, brilliant they say, and so his killings too. The finest detective in his time gave up in solving his doings (alleged) yes, they never discovered the culprit for those devilish killings. And no one in that time ever suspected the brilliant Sickert. He had many personas, and had an amazing ability to write in many hands, that was why police didn't discovered that it was the known artist who wrote those "ripper" letters (based on the researh of Ms. Cornwell).

What was in his mind? Can an artist really create such debacle? Why not? Anyway artists in general are known for their meandering temperaments.

Did he ever knew love? Of course? That's why he married four women in his life time, he loved women, like most male artists do. Though it was also women that Jack the Ripper loved to murder and mutilate, probably because he was afraid that these women might have mocked his penile deformity. Oh! Just read the book!

It's not too late to read it! It's worth reading.

The novel made me realize how someone can cover his/ her imperfection/s even in a worst possible way. Sickert was almost perfect. Almost. Too bad he's a psychopath. I would have been one of his fans.