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Phillips's Well-Drawn Tale of Two Cities

Poor Walter Sickert. First he gets slandered as a slasher, and not just any slasher. In 2002, mystery writer Patricia Cornwell (best known for her 16 Dr. Kay Scarpetta mysteries) published a whole book that claimed the so-so painter was really . . . Jack the Ripper .
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