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  • Published: 1 September 2008
  • ISBN: 9780141038391
  • Imprint: Penguin Press
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 348
  • RRP: $15.99

In Cold Blood

A True Account of a Multiple Murder and its Consequences




New edition of the Penguin Essential of the book that made Truman Capote's name

Truman Capote's In Cold Blood is both a masterpiece of journalism and a powerful crime thriller. Inspired by a 300-word article in The New York Times, Capote spent six years exploring and writing the story of Kansas farmer Herb Clutter, his family and the two young killers who brutally murdered them. In Cold Blood created a genre of novelistic non-fiction and made Capote's name with its unflinching portrayal of a comprehensible and thoroughly human evil.

  • Published: 1 September 2008
  • ISBN: 9780141038391
  • Imprint: Penguin Press
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 348
  • RRP: $15.99

About the author

Truman Capote

Truman Capote was born in New Orleans on September 30, 1924. In 1948 his first novel, Other Voices, Other Rooms, was published to international critical acclaim, assuring Capote a place among the prominent postwar American writers. He won the O. Henry Memorial Short Story Prize twice and was a member of the National Institute of Arts and Letters. His other works include Breakfast at Tiffany's, The Grass Harp, and the nonfiction masterpiece In Cold Blood. He died on August 25, 1984.

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