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In Cold Blood

By: Truman Capote
Narrated by: Scott Brick
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Truman Capote’s masterpiece of true crime, intensely researched and vividly atmospheric—“as it if were happening before [the reader’s] very eyes” (Time)

“Harrowing . . . The best documentary account of an American crime ever written. . . . The book chills the blood and exercises the intelligence.”—The New York Times Book Review

On November 15th, 1959, Richard Eugene Hickock and Perry Edward Smith brutally murdered the Clutter family in Holcomb, Kansas. This superb work, an exhaustively researched narrative of the lives of the family and the men who killed them, created a sensation when it was first published, serially, in The New Yorker in 1965.

Perry Smith is one of the great dark characters of American literature, full of contradictory emotions. “I thought he was a very nice gentleman,” he says of Herb Clutter. “Soft-spoken. I thought so right up to the moment I cut his throat.” Told in chapters that alternate between the Clutter household and the approach of Smith and Hickock in their black Chevrolet, then between the investigation of the case and the killers’ flight, Capote’s account is so detailed that the reader comes to feel almost like a participant in the events. Americas Social Sciences United States
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“A masterpiece . . . a spellbinding work.”—Life

“A remarkable, tensely exciting, superbly written ‘true account.’”—The New York Times

“The best documentary account of an American crime ever written . . . The book chills the blood and exercises the intelligence. . . . Harrowing.”—The New York Review of Books
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a great reading of a true crime classic! Scott Brick voice matches the analytical yet grim telling perfectly

great!

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A classic book with a superb narration. I didn’t know a great deal about the murder or the book but I think it is still worth reading / listening to even many years later. Extremely well written. Narration was excellent too.

A true classic

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L'écriture est excellente et le narrateur vraiment très bon. Un des tous meilleurs livres audio que j'ai écouté.

Both text and performance

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Quite a journey! A little too journalistic to my liking. Therefore no true connection with any of the characters, which is what I normally love. Great reader.

how casual can it be to commit murder

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