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In Cold Blood

Author: Truman Capote
First Published: 1965, in The New Yorker
The village of Holcomb stands on the high wheat plains of Western Kansas, a lonesome area that other Kansans call “out there.”
So begins, beautifully, Truman Capote’s meticulously-researched masterpiece about the brutal 1959 murder of the Clutter family in their home, and the pursuit and execution of their [...]