American blue-blood Truman Capote’s factionalised account of the murder, Saturday, 14th November 1959, of forty-eight year old William Clutter, his wife ‘poor’ Bonnie (nee Fox) who had ‘little spells of melancholia’ three years younger than him and two of his teenage children who lived at home with them, the teenagers Nancy, who was pretty and popular and Kenyon who was more reserved, was a blueprint for later works such as Norman Mailer’s The...