Death in Kansas:

The year is 1959. Truman Capote comes across a small newspaper note about a brutal crime in Kansas: the murder of the Clutter couple and their two children. Capote sets off for Kansas in search of a story!

In Cold Blood took six years to write. The author researched police investigation files, interviewed the victims' relatives, the criminals, close friends of the family, and some ordinary citizens frightened by the horrific crime that had shaken their small town.

On a journalistic mission, Capote did more than journalism. After all, he always considered himself a writer and took pride in pioneering a new genre—the non-fiction novel—though this claim unsettled some critics.

Whether In Cold Blood truly inaugurated a new genre or whether Capote factually depicted the crime is debatable, but there is no controversy in stating that Capote crafted a great novel. Through the brutal crime, we feel the investigators' exhilaration, the criminals' calmness and anguish, and the victims' friends' pain and resilience. Until, finally, life returns to normal in rural Kansas.

"Remember Bobby Rupp? He married a beautiful girl."

"Bobby is lucky… But what about you? You must have many admirers."