In Cold Blood |
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Author:
| Capote, Truman |
Introduction by:
| Colacello, Bob |
Series title: | Modern Library 100 Best Nonfiction Bks. |
ISBN: | 978-0-375-50790-8 |
Publication Date: | Mar 2002 |
Publisher: | Random House Publishing Group
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Imprint: | Modern Library |
Book Format: | Hardback |
List Price: | USD $23.00 |
Book Description:
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Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all time 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. There was no apparent motive for the crime, and there were almost no clues. Five years, four months and twenty-nine days later, on April 14, 1965, Richard Eugene Hickock, aged thirty-three, and...
More Description Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all time
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. There was no apparent motive for the crime, and there were almost no clues.
Five years, four months and twenty-nine days later, on April 14, 1965, Richard Eugene Hickock, aged thirty-three, and Perry Edward Smith, aged thirty-six, were hanged from the crime on a gallows in a warehouse in the Kansas State Penitentiary in Lansing, Kansa.
In Cold Blood is the story of the lives and deaths of these six people. It has already been hailed as a masterpiece.