num_pages: 343
description: In Cold Blood was a groundbreaking work when released in 1966. With it, author Truman Capote contributed to a style of writing in which the reporter gets so far inside the subject, becomes so familiar, that he projects events and conversations as if he were really there. The style has probably never been accomplished better than in this book. Capote combined painstaking research with a narrative feel to produce one of the most spellbinding stories ever put on the page. Two two-time losers living in a lonely house in western Kansas are out to make the heist of their life, but when things don't go as planned, the robbery turns ugly. From there, the book is a real-life look into murder, prison, and the criminal mind.
title: In Cold Blood
titlecomplete: In Cold Blood
characters: Bonnie Clutter, Kenyon Clutter, Alvin Dewey, Richard Hickock, Perry Edward Smith, Herb Clutter, Nancy Clutter
genres: Audiobook, Thriller, School, Crime, Literature, Classics, Mystery, Nonfiction, True Crime, History
ratings_count: 637491
places: The United States of America, Holcomb, Kansas, Kansas
awards: awardedAt: -126201600000
name: Edgar Award
category: Best Fact Crime
publisher: Buccaneer Books