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Synopsis
In Kansas in 1959, four members of the same family were brutally murdered. There were almost no clues and no apparent motive, but five years later, two men were hung for the crime. This text reconstructs the murder, investigation, trial and execution of the killers.
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-The best documentary account of an American crime ever written. . . . The book chills the blood and exercises the intelligence. . . . Harrowing.- --The New York Review of Books -A remarkable, tensely exciting, moving, superbly written 'true account.'- --The New York Times "The best documentary account of an American crime ever written. . . . The book chills the blood and exercises the intelligence. . . . Harrowing." --The New York Review of Books "A remarkable, tensely exciting, moving, superbly written 'true account.'" --The New York Times "The best documentary account of an American crime ever written. . . . The book chills the blood and exercises the intelligence. . . . Harrowing." --The New York Review of Books "A remarkable, tensely exciting, moving, superbly written 'true account.'" --The New York Times "The best documentary account of an American crime ever writtenThe book chills the blood and exercises the intelligenceharrowing." -- "The New York Review of Books" "A remarkable, tensely exciting, moving, superbly written 'true account.'" -- "The New York Times"
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Truman Capote was born in New Orleans in 1925 and grew up there, and in Alabama. After a regular job at the New Yorker, he published OTHER VOICES, OTHER ROOMS, his first novel, a commercial and critical success. Other novels and short stories followed, including BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY'S (1958), until in 1965 he published IN COLD BLOOD to a storm of controversy and yet more critical praise. He died in 1984.
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In Cold Blood: A True Account of a Multiple Murder and Its Consequences (Transaction Large Print Books)
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Transaction Pub Large Print, 2000
ISBN 10: 1560004517
ISBN 13: 9781560004516
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