<b><b>Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all time</b><br><br>From the Modern Library’s new set of beautifully repackaged hardcover classics by Truman Capote—also available are <i>Breakfast at Tiffany’s </i>and<i> Other Voices, Other Rooms </i>(in one volume),<i> Portraits and Observations, </i>and <i>The Complete Stories</i></b><br><br>Truman Capote’s masterpiece, <i>In Cold Blood, </i>created a sensation when it was first published, serially, in <i>The New Yorker</i> in 1965. The intensively researched, atmospheric narrative of the lives of the Clutter family of Holcomb, Kansas, and of the two men, Richard Eugene Hickock and Perry Edward Smith, who brutally killed them on the night of November 15, 1959, is the seminal work of the “new journalism.” 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