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In Cold Blood (Transaction Large Print Books)
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In Cold Blood (Transaction Large Print Books) Unknown - 2000

by Capote, Truman


About this book

In Cold Blood is a nonfiction book by American author Truman Capote. The book details the brutal 1959 murders of Herbert Clutter, a wealthy farmer from Holcomb, Kansas, and his wife and two of their children. When Capote learned of the quadruple murder before the killers were captured, he decided to travel to Kansas and write about the crime.

From the publisher

On November 15, 1959, in the small town of Holcomb, Kansas, four members of the Clutter family were viciously murdered by blasts from a shotgun held only inches from their faces. There were almost no clues and no apparent motive for the crime. Five years later, two men were hanged for the crime on a gallows in the Kansas State Penitentiary. In Cold Blood is the story of the lives and death of these six people. The reader is mesmerized with suspense and astonishing empathy as Truman Capote reconstructs the murder and the investigation that led to the capture, trial, and execution of the killers. It is a powerful story of inexorable crime and punishment, even more powerful for underscoring the awareness that it is reality, not literature. It is arguably Truman Capote's masterpiece.

First line

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First Edition Identification

The first edition of In Cold Blood was published Random House in 1965. Stated "First Printing" with "1/66" and "$5.95" inside the front flap of the dust jacket.

Details

  • Title In Cold Blood (Transaction Large Print Books)
  • Author Capote, Truman
  • Binding unknown
  • Edition First Edition T
  • Publisher Transaction Large Print, Somerset, New Jersey, U.S.A.
  • Date December 1, 2000
  • ISBN 9781560004516