With a Foreword by Dame Cressida Dick, this is a re-designed and updated amalgamation of the books in our series Behind the Blue Lamp, More Behind the Blue Lamp, and Discovering More Behind the Blue Lamp.   It is a hardback volume of 507 pages with chapters on the Metropolitan Police District, its boroughs and history; a gazetteer of all the police stations ever operated by the Metropolitan Police; Thames Division; Royal Dockyards; police uniform & equipment; police ranks; Women Police; a history of Metropolitan Police divisions; a chart of warrant numbers allocated by year; and a list of section houses.  For each police station there is a photograph of the building and its replacements over time, often including stories of individuals who served there and other aspects of police history.   It is a great resource for those interested in how the architecture and usage of police stations has changed over the years, a reminder for those who served or lived in those stations 'behind the blue lamp', and an insight into where one's police ancestors lived and worked.    Comprehensively illustrated, this is, in some ways, a tribute to the sometimes overlooked succession of Chief Architects and Surveyors working for the Receiver of the Metropolitan Police District, more recently the Property Services Department and the Mayor's Office for Policing and Crime.    ISBN 978-0-9546534-8-4 now available direct from the authors as a second edition, at a price of £24  including post and packaging to the UK.   For further details click on 'Contact Us' and provide your name and postal address.

This book tells the stories behind many famous investigations conducted by Scotland Yard, using images of objects in the Crime Museum.   The Crime Museum has always been closed to the general public but this book shows exhibits from many famous cases, including Dr Crippen's pyjamas, the cashbox where a thumb print convicted the Stratton brothers of the first British murder case relying on fingerprint evidence, a Victorian dynamite bomb, a doctored roulette wheel, and the Millennium diamond that was the subject of an armed robbery at the O2 arena foiled by the Flying Squad.   There is an EFIT picture of Andrejez Kunowski convicted of rape in 2003, along with the first Identikit pictures used in Britain in 1961 and a witness album picture of Michael Ostrog named as a possible 'Jack the Ripper' suspect by Melville MacNaghten in 1894.   The pencilled notes about Jack the Ripper in Detective Chief Inspector Donald Swanson's book are also pictured.   The briefcase with a hypodermic syringe that featured in the Kray brothers trial, and the torture machine used by the Richardson gang are also featured.   Updated and in a paperback edition in 2022, the new edition features a suicide belt, an antique bowl, the Hatton Garden safe deposit burglary and an online scammers's equipment.

ISBN 978-0-7509-6287-2    Hardback, 400 pages, published 2015 by The History Press  

ISBN 9 780750 998635   Paperback, 408 pages, published 2022, again by History Press

A well-illustrated 56-page book dealing with Bow Street, Nicholas Pearce and the first Detective Branch, Jonathan Whicher, Prince of Detectives, operations against terrorists in Victorian times, leading up to the introduction of fingerprints.      Published in 2013 by Shire   ISBN 978-0-74781-283-8

This book tells the story of how Scotland Yard's detective branch was formed, the first cases involving identification parades, fingerprints, ballistics evidence, Identikit, as well as the inside story of Dr Crippen, Jack the Ripper and many other crimes, all based on the authentic accounts from The National Archives where Scotland Yard's files are stored.    Published 2006 by The National Archives with a Foreword by now Lord, Sir Ian Blair QPM    ISBN  1-903365-88-0.