A unique assemblage of Truman Capote’s notebooks and papers preserved at the Library of Congress (Washington DC) and at the NYPL (New York), for the first time published. An extraordinary insight into Truman Capote’s writing and investigation. The present work offers a behind-the-scenes dip into the writing of the novel, following its four-part chronological structure. The reader will have the opportunity to peek at the notebooks outlining key scenes of the novel, which the published selected among the large volume of materials produced and collected by Capote. The volume also includes a selection of working notes, all previously unpublished – a handwritten notebook where Capote makes some hypotheses about the crime mobile, plans of the Clutter property, notes on the trial accompanied by drawings... We can almost picture Truman Capote pacing the streets of Holcomb, notebook in hand, and then later, in the evening, in his hotel room reconstructing the essence of his conversations with the local people.