<b>Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all time</b><br><br>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.<br> <br> Five years, four months and twenty-nine days later, on April 14, 1965, Richard Eugene Hickock, aged thirty-three, and Perry Edward Smith, aged thirty-six, were hanged from the crime on a gallows in a warehouse in the Kansas State Penitentiary in Lansing, Kansa.<br> <br> <b>In Cold Blood</b> is the story of the lives and deaths of these six people. It has already been hailed as a masterpiece.
