Donald Rumbelow
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]
His literary and lecturing work ranges over several centuries of London's crime history.
Personal life
Rumbelow is married and has two children.[4]
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 and Judy Hindley, illustrated by Colin King: Know How Book of Detection, Usborne Publishing Ltd, 1978
- Donald Rumbelow: Triple Tree, Harap, 1982
- Donald Rumbelow: The Complete Jack the Ripper, Virgin Books, 2013 ISBN 978-0753541500
- Stewart P. Evans and Donald Rumbelow: Jack the Ripper: Scotland Yard Investigates, Sutton Publishing, 2007, ISBN 0-7509-4228-2
External links
References
- 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
- "Penguin book author's biography". Archived from the original on 2008-07-06. Retrieved 2010-01-31.
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