In Cold Blood: Audiobook
The In Cold Blood audiobook runs an estimated 10.4 hours (about 6.9 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
The instrumentWhen will you finish it?
Based on 10.4 hours of listening (estimated).
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
|---|---|
| 30 min / day | 21 days |
| 1 hour / day | 11 days |
| 2 hours / day | 6 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 7 days |
You'll finish in–by –
What our data says
- At 10.4 hours (estimated), it runs longer than 73% of the romance audiobooks we measured.
- That's 25% longer than the average romance audiobook (8.3 hrs across 3596 titles in our dataset).
Computed from romance audiobooks in The Books Insider dataset (build ); listening time estimated from page count. Methodology.
Who is this for?
Best for romance listeners who want a murder to untangle: a solid week of commutes at 10.4 hours (estimated).
About the book
Truman Capote’s masterpiece of true crime, intensely researched and vividly atmospheric—“as it if were happening before [the reader’s] very eyes” ( Time ) “Harrowing . . . The best documentary account of an American crime ever written. . . . The book chills the blood and exercises the intelligence.”— The New York Times Book Review On November 15th, 1959, Richard Eugene Hickock and Perry Edward Smith brutally murdered the Clutter family in Holcomb, Kansas. This superb work, an exhaustively researched narrative of the lives of the family and the men who killed them, created a sensation when it was first published, serially, in The New Yorker in 1965. Perry Smith is one of the great dark characters of American literature, full of contradictory emotions. “I thought he was a very nice gentleman,” he says of Herb Clutter. “Soft-spoken.
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is the In Cold Blood audiobook?
In Cold Blood runs about 10.4 hours, our estimate from its 352 pages at a typical narration pace. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 6.9 hours.
Is the In Cold Blood audiobook free?
Yes, for new listeners: the trial starts you with three free audiobooks.
Is In Cold Blood worth listening to at 1.5× speed?
At 1.5× you'd finish in about 6.9 hours, saving 3.5 hours. Most listeners adjust to 1.25–1.5× within a chapter or two.
When was In Cold Blood first published?
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote was first published in 1965.
