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In Cold Blood is a non-fiction novel by the American author Truman Capote, first published in 1966. It details the 1959 murders of four members of the Clutter family in the small farming community of Holcomb, Kansas .
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Truman Capote. 4.09. 667,927 ratings24,392 reviews. On November 15, 1959, in the small town of Holcomb, Kansas, four members of the Clutter family were savagely murdered by blasts from a shotgun held a few inches from their faces.
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In Cold Blood is a 1967 American neo-noir crime film written, produced and directed by Richard Brooks, based on Truman Capote's 1966 nonfiction novel of the same name. It stars Robert Blake as Perry Smith and Scott Wilson as Richard "Dick" Hickock , two men who murder a family of four in Holcomb, Kansas .
Jul 7, 2023 · Learn about the real story behind Capote's groundbreaking book, based on the brutal murder of the Clutter family in Kansas in 1959. Discover how Capote researched, wrote, and published his masterpiece, and how it influenced the genre of true crime literature.
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In Cold Blood, nonfiction novel by American writer Truman Capote, published originally as a four-part series in The New Yorker magazine in 1965 and in book form in 1966. Capote used the techniques of fiction to tell the true story of the 1959 murders of the Clutter family in Kansas by a pair of drifters and of the subsequent capture, trial, and ...
A concise overview of Truman Capote's nonfiction masterpiece about the 1959 murder of the Clutter family in Kansas. Learn about the investigation, the suspects, the trial, and the execution of Perry Smith and Dick Hickock.
Oct 9, 2001 · NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The most famous true crime novel of all time "chills the blood and exercises the intelligence" (The New York Review of Books)—and haunted its...
