A nonfiction account of the November 1959 murder of the Clutter family in Holcomb, Kansas, reconstructing the crime, the investigation, and the capture, trial, and execution of killers Perry Smith and Dick Hickock through interviews with townspeople, investigators, and the killers themselves.
Books mentioned in In Cold Blood (3)
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard by Thomas Gray: “Andrews' farewell message turned out to be the ninth stanza of Gray's 'Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard': The boasts of heraldry, the pomp of pow'r...”
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky: “Lowell Lee was locked in his bedroom reading the last chapter of The Brothers Karamazov.”
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain: “Kenyon was in my sophomore English class, and I'd directed Nancy in the 'Tom Sawyer' play.”