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A true account of a multiple murder and its consequences
Truman Capote.
343 pages.
Summary: This is a true story of a callous murder of the Clutter family - a prosperous Kansas farmer, his wife and his two teenage children in November 1959. The murderers, Perry Smith and Dick Hickock, are two mindless ex-convict drifters meandering through Mexico and the United States. Neither is insane enough not to know what they are doing is wrong, nor sane enough to care. After more than a year of evading the law, they are caught, tried and condemned to hang.
First published: 1966.
Penguin essentials.