In Cold Blood is a novel published by American writer truman capote in 1966, which describes in detail the story of Herbert Clutter, a well-off farmer in Holcomb, Kansas in 1959. When Capote learned about this incident, he and his friend writer Happo lee decided to go to the local area for investigation. They interviewed local residents and investigators of the case and made thousands of pages of records. The murderers Dick and Bailey were arrested shortly after committing the crime, and Capote later spent six years writing this book. In Cold Blood is recognized as the originator of non-fiction novels and the pioneer of new journalism, and it has also become one of Capote's classic masterpieces.