by Truman Capote (1966)
On November 15, 1959, in the small town of Holcomb, Kansas, four members of the Clutter family were savagely murdered by blasts from a shotgun held a few inches from their faces. There was no apparent motive for the crime, and there were almost no clues. Truman Capote reconstructs the crime and the trial.
Mary Shelley
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Nella Larsen
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Dee Brown
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Aldous Huxley
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