Tom Averill, author and English professor, had a “Antique Road Show” moment when he laid eyes on the first-edition copy of “In Cold Blood.”
The volume had the autograph of author Truman Capote, who traveled to Kansas to research the brutal slayings of the four members of the Clutter family in November 1959. Capote’s autograph was a good sign.
But it also had the signatures of six Kansas Bureau of Investigation agents and administrators tied to the apprehension of killers Richard Hickock and Perry Smith.
That was very good.
The six are:
from News http://cjonline.com/news/2012-09-30/early-cold-blood-book-signed-capote-kbi-agents-donated-wu
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