In the second volume of the collection of works of the outstanding American novelist, the classics of post-war American literature by Truman Capote include the writer’s most famous novel “Cold-blooded murder”. Based on the story of a real crime committed in Kansas in 1959, this book on the publication of instantly became a bestseller and gave rise to a special genre of novel-reportage, piercing the path of prose by Norman Mailer and Tom Wolfe .. Capote's rigorously factual and analytical narrative reveals the nature of violence as a social and psychological phenomenon. The balance and open-mindedness of the author's position, the brilliant accuracy of the style, the polyphonicity of the image made the novel an outstanding example of artistic and documentary literature. This edition also includes an essay “Ghosts in the Sunlight” dedicated to the filming of the film “Cold-Blooded Murder” (1967).