Book 74: In Cold Blood: Truman
Capote
In Cold Blood is a 1966 book by American author Truman Capote detailing the
brutal 1959 murders of Herbert Clutter, a successful farmer from Holcomb,Kansas, his wife, and two
of their four children. When Capote learned of the quadruple murder, before the
killers were captured, he decided to travel to Kansas and write about the
crime. He was accompanied by his childhood friend and fellow author Nelle Harper Lee, and together they
interviewed local residents and investigators assigned to the case and took
thousands of pages of notes. The killers, Richard "Dick"
Hickock and Perry
Smith, were arrested some six weeks after the murders, and Capote
ultimately spent six years working on the book. The book became the greatest
crime seller at the time and is almost universally acknowledged as one of the
best books of its type ever written.
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