In Cold Blood

First published in 1966, this narrative reconstructs the 1959 murder of the Clutter family in Holcomb, Kansas, and the months that follow. Herb Clutter, his wife Bonnie, and their children Nancy and Kenyon are killed in their farmhouse. Capote follows the community's shock and the investigation that leads to two recently released convicts, Perry Smith and Dick Hickock, then tracks the pair's flight, capture, trial, and imprisonment. He alternates the orderly life of the Clutters and the town with the killers' histories and restlessness. The book is documentary crime narrative built from interviews and records, written as a continuous story rather than as a case file.

Three-quarter-bound in buckram with a Modigliani paper side printed with a picture of the Clutter family home. Black slipcase.