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Donald Rumbelow 
Summary
Donald Rumbelow (born 1940) is a British former City of London Police officer, crime historian, and ex-curator of the City of London Police's Crime Museum.[1] He has twice been chairman of England's Crime Writers' Association.
Career edit
A recognised authority on the Whitechapel Murders, he currently acts as a London Tourist Board Blue Badged guide of the Jack the Ripper Walk, a walking tour in London visiting the locations associated with the crimes.[2] He has appeared in several television documentaries examining the subject.[3] In 2021, he contributed regularly to Railway Murders.[4]
His literary and lecturing work ranges over several centuries of London's crime history.
Personal life edit
Rumbelow is married and has two children.[5]
Books by Donald Rumbelow edit
- Donald Rumbelow: I Spy Blue: Police and Crime in the City of London from Elizabeth I to Victoria, Macmillan, 1971
- Donald Rumbelow: Houndsditch Murders, Macmillan, 1973
- Donald Rumbelow: The Complete Jack the Ripper, London: W.H. Allen, 1975 (reprinted as Jack the Ripper: The Complete Casebook).
- The Complete Jack the Ripper, fully revised and updated. 2004.
- Donald Rumbelow and Judy Hindley, illustrated by Colin King: Know How Book of Detection, Usborne Publishing Ltd, 1978
- Donald Rumbelow: Triple Tree, Harap, 1982
- Stewart P. Evans and Donald Rumbelow: Jack the Ripper: Scotland Yard Investigates, Sutton Publishing, 2007, ISBN 0-7509-4228-2
External links edit
- www.walks.com - Homepage of the 'Jack the Ripper' walks
References edit
- ^ City of London Police's Crime Museum Archived November 4, 2009, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ London Walks Jack the Ripper Tour
- ^ List of TV, movie, and documentary credits at IMDB.com
- ^ "Railway Murders". UKTV, 3DD Productions. 2 May 2021.
- ^ "Penguin book author's biography". Archived from the original on 6 July 2008. Retrieved 31 January 2010.