Obituary Note: David Yallop

British writer David Yallop, "an investigative journalist who wrote popular books about true crime and conspiracy, including a bestseller asserting that Pope John Paul I was murdered as part of a Vatican plot," died on August 23, the New York Times reported. He was 81.

His 1984 book In God's Name: An Investigation Into the Murder of Pope John Paul I "was perhaps the most controversial of all," but spent 15 weeks on the Times' bestseller list and won the Crime Writers' Association's Gold Dagger award for nonfiction in 1984.

Yallop took on the Catholic Church again in The Power and the Glory: Inside the Dark Heart of John Paul II's Vatican (2006) and Beyond Belief: The Catholic Church and the Child Abuse Scandal (2010). His other books include  Deliver Us From Evil (1981) and Tracking the Jackal: The Search for Carlos, the World's Most Wanted Man (1993).

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