VOLUME 4. NUMBER 3 JANUARY 2003
IN THIS ISSUE

1. Editorial
I am Ozymandias, king of ants

2. What is a Conspiracy, Anyway?
Andy and Sue Parlour look over the Royal to-do

5. The Adventure of the Bloody Knife
Michael Newton dons a deerstalker and a Gladstone bag

PATRICIA CORNWELL: A SPECIAL SECTION
11. Please, Don.t Call it .Science.
Tim Mosley on the woman and the book

25. My Dinner With Patty
Ivor Edwards and Scott Medine report from the front lines

29. Defending Cornwell?
Peter Wood speaks up for the hard-pressed lady

33. The Bookcase
Paul Begg and Jim DiPalma peer at .Portrait of a Killer,.
while The Editor draws back .Curtains of Blood. to look at
.Jack the Ripper: The Defmitive History,. and new editions
of .Jack the Ripper: An Encyclopaedia. and .Jack the
Ripper.s Black Magic.

40. News and Notes
Catherine Eddowes. granddaughter, the return of Jack the
Myth and Drogheda.s first horseless carriage

41. Short Takes
Carl C. Dodd discusses what Patricia Cornwell hasn.t done

42. The Whitechapel Letterbox
.Say, boss...

SPECIAL THANKS Paul Begg, Jim DiPalma, Stewart P. Evans, Stephanie Riggsby, Neal Shelden