The New York Review of Books.
"A masterpiece ... a spelbounding work."
Life
"Remarkable, tensely exciting, moving, superbly written 'true account'."
The New York Times.
"The american dream turning into the american nightmare ... a remarkable book."
"In Cold Blood is a masterpiece - agonizing, terrible, possessed, proof that the times so surfeited with disasters, are still capable of tragedy."
"This is Capote's victory, and it is not a small one."