Donald Rumbelow Explained
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
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
Rumbelow is married and has two children.[5]
Books by Donald Rumbelow
- 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,
External links
References
- http://www.cityoflondon.police.uk/CityPolice/About/Museum/ City of London Police's Crime Museum
- http://www.jacktheripperwalk.com/index2.html London Walks Jack the Ripper Tour
- https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1429404/ List of TV, movie, and documentary credits at IMDB.com
- Web site: Railway Murders . UKTV, 3DD Productions . 2 May 2021.
- Web site: Penguin book author's biography . 2010-01-31 . https://web.archive.org/web/20080706174932/http://www.penguin.co.uk/nf/Author/AuthorPage/0,,1000048928,00.html . 2008-07-06 . dead .
