David Yallop

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David Anthony Yallop (born 27 January 1937) is a British author who writes chiefly about unsolved crimes. In the 1970s he also contributed scripts for a number of BBC comedy shows.[citation needed] In October 1992 he lost his job when, as a scriptwriter for EastEnders, he proposed killing some of the characters by means of an IRA bomb. Yallop successfully sued the BBC for breach of contract.[1] He was also one of the co-authors of Graham Chapman's autobiography, A Liar's Autobiography (Volume VI).

Yallop lives in North London and is agnostic.[2][3]

Books

His books include:

  • To Encourage The Others (about the Craig/Bentley murder case)
  • The Day The Laughter Stopped (a biography of Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle)
  • Beyond Reasonable Doubt? (the conviction of New Zealand farmer Arthur Allan Thomas (later pardoned), for the murder of Harvey and Jeanette Crewe) was made into a docu-drama feature film
  • Deliver Us From Evil (about the Yorkshire Ripper)
  • In God's Name: An Investigation into the Murder of Pope John Paul I Bantam Books, 1984
  • To the Ends of the Earth (about the capture of Carlos)
  • How They Stole the Game (about football)
  • Unholy Alliance (about the international drug trade and resultant political corruption)
  • The Power and the Glory: Inside the Dark Heart of Pope John Paul II's Vatican (about the Papacy of Pope John Paul II)

References

  1. ↑ The Guardian, The cutting edge, 18 October 1993
  2. ↑ The Herald, "Why did this "saint" fail to act on sinners within his flock?", Anne Simpson, May 26, 2007
  3. ↑ John Cornwell, "A Thief in the Night: Life and Death in the Vatican," Penguin Books, 1989, p. 181

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