Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders [Charles Manson]

New York: W.W. Norton & Company Inc, 1974. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 9x6x1. Book club edition. Very good in good jacket. Jacket edges rubbed with several small creases and closed tears, ink name and small pink transfer mark on front endpaper. 1974 Hard Cover. 502 pp. "Prosecuting attorney in the Manson trial, Vincent Bugliosi held a unique insider's position in one of the most baffling and horrifying cases of the twentieth century: the cold-blooded Tate-LaBianca murders carried out by Charles Manson and four of his followers. What motivated Manson in his seemingly mindless selection of victims, and what was his hold over the young women who obeyed his orders' Here is the gripping story of this famous and haunting crime. Both Helter Skelter and Vincent Bugliosi's subsequent Till Death Us Do Part won Edgar Allan Poe Awards for best true-crime book of the year. 50 pages of black-and-white photographs.