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Editor's Choice

In Cold Blood

by Truman Capote · 1966

True Crime · ranked #1 in category

A Kansas farm-family murder reconstructed in novelistic detail; the book that created the true-crime genre.

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Category
True Crime
First published
1966 · 1960s
Author
Truman Capote
Standing
Editor's Choice

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