 In 2015, he published "Mr. Atherstone leaves the Stage", an account of the unsolved Battersea murder of the actor Thomas Weldon Atherstone in 1910, and the following year "Tales from the Dead-House", a collection of essays concerning macabre crimes.For some years, Whittington-Egan lived in Great Malvern, Worcestershire, with his wife, Molly Whittington-Egan, also a writer.Whittington-Egan was a member of the Medico-Legal Society, the Crime Writers' Association, and the Society for Psychical Research.