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The author, Patricia Cornwell, puts significance on the purple pencil because many of the 'fake' letters and notes that the police and press received were written in a special purple pencil used by artists. It is also a well-known fact that Cornwell's suspect, artist Walter R. Sickert loved to use his purple artist's pencil and was never far from it.

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