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Funny what you hear...
A couple of days ago I found a TV series on YouTube that I haven't seen since 1973: "Jack The Ripper - Barlow & Watt Investigate".
It's an intriguing show, using two of the currently most popular TV policemen: they'd appeared in about three linked-but-separate crossover series, "Z Cars", "Softly Softly" and "Softly Softly Task Force".
However in this instance the crimes they're investigating, and the theories they're examining, are the notorious non-fictional Whitechapel murders.
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After about 50 years, watching this Is like seeing it for the very first time, and the very first episode contained the following exchange, which made me laugh a bit.
("Jack" is slang for a policeman, like "Bobby", "Peeler" or "cop", though I think Jack is more regionally North of England, where the Barlow and Watt characters originate.)
Barlow: "They had eight inspectors on the case."
Watt: "And two Lancashire Jacks are worth how many from the south?"
Barlow: "Well, at least we are Jacks. Starting with the evidence, and testing some theories. Not starting with the theory and selecting the evidence…"
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Why did I laugh?
It's because Barlow's final observation sums up Patricia Cornwell's infamous approach to her "Portrait of a Killer: Jack the Ripper: Case Closed".
Like any detective-story writer, she started with her chosen perpetrator (artist Walter Sickert) then arranged the rest of the book to "prove" it was 'im wot dunnit.
It's a book crammed full of circumstantial evidence and leap-of-logic speculations such as "...while there is no evidence Sickert was in London on that date, there is no evidence that he wasn't".
Well, duh.
Cornwell goes after her target with such obsession that one reviewer - a lawyer - pointed out that if Sickert had been still alive, the book would have been Exhibit A in a case of malicious libel. (Another comment, however, suggested he would have revelled in such notoriety...)
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As for closing the Ripper case or providing solid proof of who he / she / they was or were, it won't happen; the speculation industry is worth too much money and new books, new names and new theories - or old stuff recycled - keep coming out, with the most recent in July of this year (2023).
The only names that really matter are Mary Ann "Polly" Nichols, Anne "Annie" Chapman, Elizabeth "Long Liz" Stride, Catherine "Kate" Eddowes and Mary Jane Kelly.
They were people, not just names to tick off a check-list.
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I AM SCREAMING CRYING THROWING UP
#rambling tag#HOLY SHIT#im perfectly calm#my gf just bought me the rest of the scarpetta books i haven't read#AND NOW THIS#AAAAAAAHHHHHH#kay scarpetta#patricia cornwell
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Morally reprehensible.
This is just a small selection of members of mankind who are morally reprehensible. They live in their own value system which does not correspond to a concept of human rights.
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I believe the root of all evil is abuse of power.
Patricia Cornwell
It is never ok for politicians to abuse their power for self enrichment, and even for has-beens and also-rans there has to be some brand of justice so present and future presidents don't get lured into taking crafty, well disguised bribes pretending it's 'charity.'
Lisa Kennedy Montgomery
It's time for a last second Easter miracle Dad..... Just strike them down with a lightning bolt so that they go up in flames and with them all the following ones with the same problem.
Jesus Christus more or less
Of course we are in favour of complete non-violence, but we cannot question the catastrophic nature of God.
We are only fallible humans.
The worst thing is that they ruin the lives of many people in the long term or even end them prematurely on purpose.
The good thing is that death will take them all sooner or later! And since they are so attached to life, they will do anything to prolong it, even in a state of absolute decay. Not a nice thing.... kind of payback.
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Unwanted "like a phantom peen". LMAO An unexpected turn of phrase.
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Title: All That Remains
Author: Patricia Cornwell
Rating: 3.5 out of 5
Review: I have a feeling this will be one of my least favorites out of the Scarpetta series. While it was enjoyable, it had too much going on as though Cornwell wasn’t certain where to take the characters. In terms of the overall plot I thought it was well done but wrapped up too neatly. You had one ending and then a few pages later what felt like a fix it ending, an apology for the ending we had just received. I think if this was more streamlined in what it needed to do for the characters then I would have enjoyed it more.
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Jenny’s kisses many
warmed the copper penny
wedded to her neck
with cotton string.
It was in the spring
when he found it
on the dusty drive
beside the meadow
and given it to her.
No words of passion
spoken.
He loved her
with a token.
The meadow now is brown
and overgrown with brambles.
He is gone.
The coin is asleep
is cold
down deep
in a woodland wishing pond.
- a poem from Cruel and Unusual by Patricia Cornwell
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Author Controversy of The Day (05/24/2023)
I was curious if there was any controversy surrounding one of my favorite crime novelists. I learned today that this is one controversy. I seriously had no idea this happened. I've only been a fan of her's since, 2010, I think. 🤔 So, far my search has only found this as a main article. This part of the article stood out the most to me.
This is all news to me and I've been a fan of her work since 2010, I think. 🤔 It states the article was posted in 2012. I'm only 11 years late in learning this information. 🤣
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I am once again telling you guys I bought more books with a list including all I have for her at this moment.
#dark academia#dark academia aesthetic#light academia#bookblr#chaotic academia#dark academic#bookaholic#patricia cornwell
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Partageons mon rendez-vous lecture #10-2023 & critiques
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Kay Scarpetta arriva in TV
Kay Scarpetta, l’anatomopatologa forense protagonista dei medical thriller firmati da Patricia Cornwell, porterà presto le sue avventure in una serie TV su Prime Video. Sì, è vero, sono ancora indiscrezioni, ma sappiamo che quando cominciano a girare certe voci sui prossimi programmi di Prime Video, è quasi un gioco pubblicitario: prima se ne parla per creare aspettativa e poi si annuncia la…
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Lecture terminée, finished reading
3.5 ⭐ for both
#books#reading#lecture#goodreads reading challenge#livres#love reading#my photography#read#bookworms#crime#children#childrenbooks#patricia cornwell#fabricecolin
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Title: Body of Evidence
Author: Patricia Cornwell
Rating: 3 out of 5
Review: Certainly enjoyed this more than the first in the series but still wasn't quite blown away enough to consider jumping into the next novel right away. Had a much better dealing with the red herrings and use of the investigation this time around. While it wasn't wholly straightforward, you did get from beginning to end without characters popping up that added nothing to the story which was appreciated after the experience with the first novel.
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A girl started receiving calls from a stalker and months later she winds up dead. She was a writer with secrets to spill, but before her last books was published her manuscript was nowhere to find and two more dead bodies were found.
The Body of Evidence is a story that leaves the mind of the readers puzzled from beginning to end. A classic murder story asks who the killer is, but other than that, this book challenges us to also question their motives (and belive me, it's not what you think it is). Patricia Cornwell had crafted a story that would leave us at the edge of our seats as we dig into the secrets and actions in the narrative of the forensic pathologist, Dr. Scarpetta. In this second book, readers can expect that all our questions regarding the case will be answered just as we close the last chapter.
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