In Cold Blood
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On November 15, 1959, Richard Eugene Hickock and Perry Edward Smith brutally murdered the Clutter family in Holcomb, Kansas. Capote's exhaustively researched narrative of the victims and the men who killed them created a sensation when it first ran in The New Yorker in 1965. Perry Smith is one of the great dark characters of American literature, full of contradictory emotions. "I thought he was a very nice gentleman," he says of Herb Clutter. "Soft-spoken. I thought so right up to the moment I cut his throat." Chapters alternate between the Clutter household and the killers' approach in their black Chevrolet, then between the investigation and the flight, so detailed the reader comes to feel almost like a participant.
Genres: True Crime
ISBN-13: 9780679745587
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