In cold blood : a true account of a multiple murder and its consequences /
Truman Capote.
- 1st Vintage International ed.
- New York : Vintage Books, 1994.
- 343 pages ; 21 cm.
Originally published: 1965.
Truman Capote called his account of the 1959 murder of a Kansas farm family a nonfiction novel. Using information he collected through townspeople and the killers, Capote created a vivid portrait of the criminals and graphically described the crime, the criminals' escape to Mexico, capture, trial, appeals, and hanging." Benet's Reader's Ency of Am Lit