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Donald Rumbelow

Donald Rumbelow

British historian of crime

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, ISBN 0-7509-4228-2

References

  1. [1]
    City of London Police's Crime Museum Archived November 4, 2009, at the Wayback Machine
  2. [2]
    London Walks Jack the Ripper Tour
  3. [3]
    List of TV, movie, and documentary credits at IMDB.com
  4. [4]
    "Railway Murders". UKTV, 3DD Productions. 2 May 2021.
  5. [5]
    "Penguin book author's biography". Archived from the original on 6 July 2008. Retrieved 31 January 2010.
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