In Cold Blood (Masterplots II: Nonfiction Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Truman Capote
- First Published: 1966
- Type of Work: Nonfiction novel/New Journalism
- Time of Work: 1959-1965
- Setting: Kansas, Nevada, California, Mexico, Florida, and Texas
- Principal Characters: Richard (Dick) Eugene Hickock, Perry Edward Smith, Herbert Clutter, Bonnie Clutter, Nancy Clutter, Kenyon Clutter, Bobby Rupp, Alvin Dewey, Floyd Wells, Willie Jay
- Genres: Nonfiction, New Journalism
- Subjects: 1950’s, Crime or criminals, Murder or homicide, Midwest, Moral conditions, Human behavior
- Locales: Kansas
Form and Content
On November 16, 1959, the bloody corpses of Herbert, Bonnie, Nancy, and Kenyon Clutter were discovered in their Holcomb, Kansas, farmhouse. Herbert Clutter had been a prominent and prosperous member of that rural community, and the gruesome murders of the upstanding Methodist farmer, his wife, and two of their four children shocked the Midwest. It was a crime without any apparent motive, and it was not until January that the murderers, two parolees named Dick Hickock and Perry Smith, were arrested.
Truman Capote, renowned for his Southern gothic fiction...
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