Something Wicked This Way Comes

Categories: Movies & Books , Nonfiction

Philip Seymour Hoffman's Oscar-winning role in Capote sparked renewed interest in Capote's In Cold Blood.  With help from research assistant and friend Harper Lee, Capote composed this true crime classic which made the Modern Library's list of 100 Best Nonfiction Works published after 1900.  In it, he details the 1959 murders of the Clutter family by ex-convicts Richard Hickock and Perry Smith. 

All the attention brought to Capote's work has made me think about other classic murder cases, and the books written about them.  The library has many, including:

• Helter Skelter--Vincent Bugliosi with Curt Gentry (Charles Manson)
• Fatal Vision--Joe McGinniss (Jeffrey MacDonald)
• The Stranger Beside Me--Ann Rule (Ted Bundy)
• The Devil in the White City--Erik Larson (Herman Mudgett)
• A Death in Belmont--Sebastian Junger (Albert DeSalvo)