Original sentence: Capote ultimately spent years working on the book, which became the originator of the non-fiction novel.Hickock's violence concerning the Clutter murders left his family puzzled.In Cold Blood is a 1965 book by American author Truman Capote.It details the 1959 slayings of Herbert Clutter, a wealthy farmer from Holcomb, Kansas, his wife, and two children.Together they interviewed local residents and investigators assigned to the case and took thousands of pages of notes.When Capote learned of the quadruple murders, he decided to go to Kansas and write about them, even before the killers, Richard "Dick" Hickock and Perry Smith, were captured.While the introduction of In Cold Blood may seem at first like a dull, windy, drawn-out account of the Clutter's lives, it becomes obvious as the story progresses that it sets the reader up for the seemingly unusual relationship of four people
Edited sentence: Capote and Lee took thousands of pages of notes, and Capote spent years working on the book.Capote had in fact created a new genre, the nonfiction novel.Hickock’s violence concerning the Clutter murders left his family puzzled.In Cold Blood is a remarkable true account of a multiple murder and its aftermath, by American author Truman Capote.In Cold Blood turned out to be a masterpiece of creative true-life.The book details the 1959 slayings of Herbert Clutter, a wealthy farmer from Holcomb, Kansas, his wife, and two children.Together they devoted years interviewing local residents and investigators assigned to the case.When Capote learned of the quadruple slayings he decided to go to Kansas and write about the murders, even before the killers, Richard “Dick” Hickock and Perry Smith, were captured.While the introduction of In Cold Blood may seem at first like a dull, windy, drawn-out account of the Clutter’s lives, it becomes obvious as the story progresses that it sets the reader up for the seemingly unusual relationship of four people