In what year was the author who wrote the true crime book "Helter Skelter" with Curt Gentry born?
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Helter Skelter (book) Helter Skelter (1974) is a true crime book by Vincent Bugliosi and Curt Gentry. Bugliosi had served as the prosecutor in the 1970 trial of Charles Manson. The book presents his firsthand account of the cases of Manson, Susan Atkins, Patricia Krenwinkel, and other members of the self-described Manson Family. It is the best-selling true crime book in history.
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Vincent Bugliosi Vincent T. Bugliosi, Jr. ( ; August 18, 1934 – June 6, 2015) was an American attorney and "New York Times" bestselling author. During his eight years in the Los Angeles County district attorney's office, he successfully prosecuted 105 out of 106 felony jury trials, which included 21 murder convictions without a single loss. He was best known for prosecuting Charles Manson and other defendants accused of the seven Tate–LaBianca murders of August 9–10, 1969. Although Manson did not physically participate in the murders at Sharon Tate's home, Bugliosi used circumstantial evidence to show that he had orchestrated the killings.
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Fred Rosen (author) Fred Rosen is a former columnist for the Arts and Leisure Section of "The New York Times" and a true crime author in the United States.
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Milton Scott Michel Milton Scott Michel (October 23, 1916 – July 8, 1992) was an American crime fiction writer and playwright. His most notable work was published in the 1940s – 1960s.
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David Von Drehle David James Von Drehle (born February 6, 1961) is an American author and journalist.
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The Crime at Black Dudley The Crime at Black Dudley, also known in the United States as The Black Dudley Murder, is a crime novel by Margery Allingham, first published in 1929, in the United Kingdom by Jarrolds, London and in the United States by Doubleday Doran, New York. It introduces Albert Campion, her misleadingly vapid detective, who would go on to appear in another 18 novels and many short stories over the next 30 years.
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Melville Davisson Post Melville Davisson Post (April 19, 1869 – June 23, 1930) was an American author, born in Harrison County, West Virginia. Although his name is not immediately familiar to those outside of specialist circles, many of his collections are still in print, and many collections of detective fiction include works by him. Post's best-known character is the mystery solving, justice dispensing West Virginian backwoodsman, Uncle Abner. The 22 Uncle Abner tales, written between 1911 and 1928, have been called some of "the finest mysteries ever written".
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Michael Kenyon Michael F. Kenyon (26 June 1931 – 29 May 2005) was a British author of crime novels. Author of more than 20 humorous mystery novels, he was one of the first in the field of spoof-espionage story telling, but perhaps better known for the Superintendent O'Malley, and latterly Inspector Henry Peckover series of books. Peckover was especially successful, fondly known as "The Bard Of The Yard". He was also a regular contributor to Gourmet Magazine, The Washington Post and the Los Angeles Times.
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Jerry Bledsoe Jerry Bledsoe (born 1941) is an American author and journalist known for several true crime titles based on murders in his native state of North Carolina.
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Ken Bruen Ken Bruen (born 1951) is an Irish writer of hard-boiled and noir crime fiction.
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Mary Willis Walker Mary Willis Walker (born May 24, 1942, Fox Point, Wisconsin) is an American crime fiction author.
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Edward Bunker Edward Heward Bunker (December 31, 1933 – July 19, 2005) was an American author of crime fiction, a screenwriter, and an actor. He wrote numerous books, some of which have been adapted into films. He was a screenwriter on "Straight Time" (1978), "Runaway Train" (1985) and "Animal Factory" (2000).
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True Detective (magazine) True Detective (originally True Detective Mysteries) is an American true crime magazine published from 1924 to 1995. It initiated the true crime magazine genre, and during its peak from the 1940s to the early 1960s it sold millions of copies and spawned numerous imitators.
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Jeffery Deaver Jeffery Deaver (born May 6, 1950) is an American mystery/crime writer. He has a bachelor of journalism degree from the University of Missouri and a law degree from Fordham University and originally started working as a journalist. He later practiced law before embarking on a successful career as a best-selling novelist. He has been awarded the Steel Dagger and Short Story Dagger from the British Crime Writers' Association and the Nero Wolfe Award, and he is a three-time recipient of the Ellery Queen Reader's Award for Best Short Story of the Year and a winner of the British Thumping Good Read Award. His novels have appeared on bestseller lists around the world, including "The New York Times", "The Times", Italy's "Corriere della Sera", "The Sydney Morning Herald", and "The Los Angeles Times".
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Jim Bishop James Alonzo Bishop (November 21, 1907 – July 26, 1987) was an American journalist and author who wrote the bestselling book "The Day Lincoln was Shot".
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Diane Fanning Diane Fanning is an American crime writer and author who writes nonfiction and mystery novels.
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Joan Hess Joan Hess (born 1949) is an American mystery writer, a member of Sisters in Crime, and a former president of the American Crime Writers League. She wrote two popular mystery series: "The Claire Malloy Mysteries" and "The Maggody Mysteries" (also called "The Arly Hanks Mysteries"), and has contributed to multiple anthologies and book series, including: Crosswinds, Deadly Allies, Malice Domestic, Sisters in Crime, and The Year's 25 Finest Crime and Mystery Stories. She also writes the Theo Bloomer mystery series, under the pseudonym Joan Hadley.
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John Dickson Carr John Dickson Carr (November 30, 1906 – February 27, 1977) was an American author of detective stories, who also published using the pseudonyms Carter Dickson, Carr Dickson and Roger Fairbairn.
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Steve Railsback Stephen Hall "Steve" Railsback (born November 16, 1945) is an American theatre, film, and television actor, born in Dallas, Texas. He is best known for his performances in the films "The Stunt Man" and his portrayal of Charles Manson in the television miniseries "Helter Skelter".
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Bartholomew Gill Bartholomew Gill was the pen name of Mark C. McGarrity (July 22, 1943 – July 4, 2002), an Irish-American crime fiction and mystery novelist and newspaper features writer and columnist writing on nature and outdoor recreation for "The Star-Ledger". He was the author of 22 mystery novels, set in Ireland, and featuring a "resourceful police detective named Peter McGarr." For his pen name, McGarrity used the name of his maternal grandfather, Bartholomew Gill, who "was a great storyteller." McGarrity wrote five novels and a work of nonfiction under his real name, and his writings for the "Star-Ledger" were published under his true name.
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James Crumley James Arthur Crumley (October 12, 1939 – September 17, 2008) was the author of violent hardboiled crime novels and several volumes of short stories and essays, as well as published and unpublished screenplays. He has been described as "one of modern crime writing's best practitioners", who was "a patron saint of the post-Vietnam private eye novel" and a cross between Raymond Chandler and Hunter S. Thompson. His book "The Last Good Kiss" has been described as "the most influential crime novel of the last 50 years."
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Nancy Barr Mavity Nann "Nancy" Barr Mavity (October 22, 1890 - April 23, 1959) was an American crime mystery author.