In Cold Blood by Truman Capote, (Modern Library First Edition)

In Cold Blood, non fiction novel by American writer Truman Capote, published originally as a four-part series in The New Yorker magazine in 1965 and in book form in 1966. Capote used the techniques of fiction to tell the true story of the 1959 murders of the Clutter family in Kansas by a pair of drifters and of the subsequent capture, trial, and execution of the killers.