In Cold Blood (Masterplots, Revised Second Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Truman Capote
- First Published: 1966
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Detective and mystery
- Time of Work: 1959
- Setting: Kansas
- Principal Characters: Perry Smith, Dick Hickock, The Four Clutter Victims, Alvin Dewey
- Genres: Nonfiction, New Journalism
- Subjects: 1950’s, Crime or criminals, Murder or homicide, Midwest, Moral conditions, Human behavior
- Locales: Kansas
The Story:
Near the western border of Kansas, among wheat fields and dusty roads, lay Holcomb, a small community of farmers and ranchers. On the morning of November 14, 1959, Herb Clutter strolled across the grounds of River Valley Farm, heading toward a grove of trees that he had nursed to life with the same care and purpose that he had used to raise four children and build one of the largest, most prosperous spreads in Finney County. An educated, widely respected wheat farmer, Mr. Clutter had little to worry about that Saturday morning. A lingering illness had left his wife,...
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