Manson’s homicidal Family ties

Charles Manson: Coming Down Fast, By Simon Wells, Hodder & Stoughton, €15.60

Excluding the obvious likes of Joe Stalin and Pol Pot, whose killing was state-sponsored and enacted on an industrial scale, Charles Manson has no serious rivals for the title of most famous murderer in the world.

Jeffrey Dahmer made a brave lunge for the crown in the early 1990s, but was quickly carved up by someone every bit as deranged as ...