The Arroyo Book Club will be reading Truman Capote’s classic of true crime In Cold Blood for its August meeting. To provide a brief synopsis let me turn to the library’s catalog description:
Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all time
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.
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, Kansas.
In Cold Blood is the story of the lives and deaths of these six people.
It seems like a book that could lead to some spirited discussion, so, pick up a copy the next time you are at the library and plan to join us on August 26 at 3:00 to share your thoughts.
