An extensive amount of research has gone into The Highgate Vampire Casebook, which finally blows the lid off of the legend, cutting away at the falsehoods, mistruths and outright lies about the Vampire and its supposed Eastern European origin.
A concise in-depth study of the Vampire hoax, the book offers new insights & facts into the truth behind the myth which have clearly been overlooked by the more gullible.
Rather than lose itself in whimsical ideas, it pulls no punches and goes for the jugular, backing up facts from Census Records, Wills & Probate & the University of Cambridge archives, amongst other sources. 
University Graduate, Patsy Langley, first became interested in Highgate Cemetary during her research into the Pre-Raphaelite painters and poets for her University studies.
She has a degree in Earth Sciences and Humanities, has contributed articles on ley line and ghostly phenomena for 'The Highgate Vampire Casebook Files' (magazine) and is a certified accountant.
She is currently producing a book on ghosts and legends of Middlesex.

 

"In order for any examination of incredible stories put out as 'facts', it is necessary to cut through the swathe of reports, self-publicity and thrilling episodes and get back to the beginning. When dissecting a conspiracy theory for example, one must get to the truth, and the truth is only arrived at when all other material is cut away. This book speaks in rather arcane, old-fashioned language; it is full of romanticism and self-proclamation, full of long words when short ones are more than adequate, and is difficult to state whether the author intended for it to be a vampire yarn or a serious study into a true story of an alleged vampire. However, since it has been marketed as a serious book, then this is from where any research evaluation has to approach it."

 

"1). Who was this mysterious nobleman from south eastern Europe? Why was he not recorded as a tenant of Ashurst House under the Caves' occupation? Did he break in to the mansion and take up rooms illegally? Certainly his late-night movements would have alerted the judges then in residence, not to mention first-hand independent encounters with the fanged beast. If such a fantastical personage lived in Ashurst House, it would have been recorded in someone's diary somewhere, but it is not."

 

"4). If the 'nobleman-vampire' had hidden his coffin in the cellars of the old house, why was it not found when the house was demolished in 1830 to make way for the church? Did the vampire nobleman move it, and if so, to where? Why was this coffin described in the book as 'newer than those on the shelves' (when discovered in the Wace tomb)? Far from being newer, it would have appeared incredibly older, for the first Wace coffin was placed inside the tomb in 1872. The 'vampire noble-man' arrived at Ashurst House allegedly in the 18th century"