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Donald Rumbelow
British historian of crime From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Donald Rumbelow (born c.1940) is a British former City of London Police officer, crime historian, and former curator of the City of London Police's Crime Museum.[1] He has twice served as 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 for the Jack the Ripper Walk, a walking tour in London that visits the locations associated with the crimes.[2] He has appeared in several television documentaries examining the subject.[3] In 2021, he was a regular contributor to Railway Murders.[4]
His literary and lecturing work spans several centuries of London's crime history.
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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
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