SICKERT AND THE RIPPER CRIMES

Hardback. An investigation into the relationship between the Whitechapel murders of 1888 and the English tonal painter Walter Richard Sickert. 'Florence Pash, friend and colleague of the artist Walter Sickert and herself an artist, confided to the author's mother when in her eighties, a terrible story that she had kept even from those closest to her. She and Sickert had both known Mary Kelly, the last woman to be brutally murdered by the Ripper - and Sickert had warned her that, because she knew what Mary Kelly knew, she could become if she ever began to talk, the Ripper's next victim.' Illus., Bibliog. and Index. 172pp. 8vo. h/back. Includes a loosely inserted bookmark, uniquely supplied to Loretta Lay Books, with Jean Overton-Fuller's printed signature, plus a newspaper cutting of a review by Daniel Farson of a Sickert Exhibition at the Royal Academy in 1992. As New in protected dw.