In Cold Blood: A True Account of a Multiple Murder and Its Consequences

ISBN-13:	9780679745587
Publisher:	Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date:	02/01/1994
Series:	Vintage International
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	368
Sales rank:	3,252
Product dimensions:	5.10(w) x 7.80(h) x 0.80(d)
Lexile:	1040L (what's this?)

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 author long after he finished writing it. 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. In one of the first non-fiction novels ever written, Truman Capote reconstructs the murder and the investigation that led to the capture, trial, and execution of the killers, generating both mesmerizing suspense and astonishing empathy. In Cold Blood is a work that transcends its moment, yielding poignant insights into the nature of American violence.