num_pages: 343
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 for the crime on a gallows in a warehouse at the Kansas State Penitentiary in Lansing, Kansas. In Cold Blood is the story of the lives and deaths of these six people. It has already been hailed as a masterpiece.
language: English
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: 637503
places: The United States of America, Holcomb, Kansas, Kansas
awards: awardedAt: -126201600000
name: Edgar Award
category: Best Fact Crime
publisher: Random House