'In Cold Blood' Review         'In Cold Blood' is a tragic story of two men, Eugene Hickock and Perry Edward, who murder an entire family in search of money and then find themselves running from the law. While writing the book, Truman Capote used only facts to create a novel out of an actual event. He had thousands of notes on the subject, but his problem was making his book read like a novel. He accomplished …showed first 75 words of 672 total…

…showed last 75 words of 672 total…similar to novels written today, and if it was published in the 1990's, it would be just as successful as it was when it was first published in 1966. Today big writers such as John Grisham and Patricia Cornwell could be compared to Capote, but they do not use real world events for their crime-fiction novels. This is what sets Capote apart from other writers and makes him one of the great writers in American History.