"In Cold Blood" Book 1965 Capote, Truman

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A True Account Of A Multiple Murder And Its Consequences

CAPOTE, Truman

[343] pp.

1965

Random House

8 3/4" x … Read more A True Account Of A Multiple Murder And Its Consequences

CAPOTE, Truman

[343] pp.

1965

Random House

8 3/4" x 6 1/4"

Jacket design by S. Neil Fujit

In Cold Blood is a non-fiction novel by the American author Truman Capote, first published in 1966. It details the 1959 Clutter family murders in the small farming community of Holcomb, Kansas.

Capote learned of the quadruple murder before the killers were captured, and he traveled to Kansas to write about the crime. He was accompanied by his childhood friend and fellow author Harper Lee, and they interviewed residents and investigators assigned to the case and took thousands of pages of notes. The killers, Richard Hickock and Perry Smith, were arrested six weeks after the murders and later executed by the state of Kansas. Capote ultimately spent six years working on the book See less