Truman Capote's In Cold Blood is a true account of a multiple murder case that occurred in Holcomb, Kansas in 1959, written by Truman Capote. Capote's attention to detail makes the reader gain an extreme interest in the Clutter family even though they were a normal family. The suspense that results from minimal facts and descriptive settings was an elaborate stylistic technique that yielded effective results throughout the book. His ability to make this account of a horrific crime more than just a newspaper description was a great success as the basis of his many literary devices, not only because of the close attention to small details. Capote's structure throughout the book created an excellent backbone to tell the book's two alternating perspectives of the victims; the messy family and the murders; Dick Hickock and Perry Smith. This allowed Capote to have no prejudice towards the accounts told. The pattern of victims and killers creates an interesting puzzle in which the reader gathers a wealth of information leading up to the climax of the actual massacre. It actually continues...