In Cold Blood

Truman Capote's genre-defining account reconstructs the 1959 shotgun murders of the Clutter family on their Kansas farm and the capture, trial and execution of killers Dick Hickock and Perry Smith. Blending reportage with novelistic craft, it pioneered the literary true-crime form and probes the psychology behind a senseless rural slaughter.

ISBN 9780241907788 · Random House · 1966