Curt Gentry

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Curt Gentry (born 1931) is an American writer. He is best-known for Helter Skelter (1974), which detailed the Charles Manson murders.

Helter Skelter won a 1975 Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America for Best Fact Crime book.

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• Last Days of the Late, Great State of California
• J. Edgar Hoover: The Man and the Secrets
• The Madams of San Francisco: An Irreverent History of the City by the Golden Gate
• The Killer Mountains: A Search for the Legendary Lost Dutchman Mine
• Helter Skelter: The True Story Of The Manson Murders (with Vincent Bugliosi)
• Frame-up: The Incredible Case of Tom Mooney and Warren Billings
• The Dolphin Guide to San Francisco and the Bay Area
• Jade: Stone of Heaven (with Richard Gump)
• John M. Browning: American Gunmaker (with J. Browning)
• The Vulnerable Americans
• A Kind of Loving (with Toni Lee Scott)
• Operation Overflight: The U-2 Spy Pilot Tells His Story for the First Time (with Francis Gary Powers)
• Second in Command: The Uncensored Account of the Capture of the Spy Ship Pueblo (with Edward R. Murphy)