1-Sentence-Summary: In Cold Blood is a new form of journalism that is referred to as a โnonfiction novel,โ which tells, as if it were a novel, the story of how Dick Hickock and Perry Smith conspired, prepared, and killed the Clutter family in rural Kansas in the fall of 1959, and what it took for the police to catch them so they could be brought to justice by hanging in 1965.
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