TY - BOOK AU - Capote, Truman, TI - In cold blood: a true account of a multiple murder and its consequences SN - 679745580 AV - HV 6533.K3 .C173 1994 PY - 1994/// CY - New York PB - Vintage Books KW - Murder KW - Kansas N1 - Originally published: New York : Random House, c1965 N2 - On November 15, 1959, in the small town of Holcomb, Kansas, four members of the Clutter family were savagely murdered by blasts from a shotgun held a few inches from their faces. There was no apparent motive for the crime, and there were almost no clues. Five years, four months and twenty-nine days later, on April 14, 1965, Richard Eugene Hickock, aged thirty-three, and Perry Edward Smith, aged thirty-six, were hanged for the crime on a gallows in a warehouse in the Kansas State Penitentiary in Lansing, Kansas. In Cold Blood is the story of the lives and deaths of these six people. It has already been hailed as a masterpiece."www.shelfari.com" ER -