When Truman Capote, the young star of New York's literary scene, set off to investigate the Clutter family murders in rural Kansas, he had no idea that he would spend five years of his life immersed in crime. He didn't realize that crime was not a subject like any other.  In 1966, his novel In Cold Blood revolutionized crime fiction. But at what cost to the writer? “If I had known what awaited me in Kansas, I would never have stopped. I would have kept going straight ahead. That novel killed me.”