They were children - she, a tomboy in overalls; he, a summer visitor from New Orleans, always dressed in immaculate white linen. Twenty-five years later, he had exchanged the white linen for a velvet suit and a poison pen, and had taken New York's literary world by storm while she struggled to put pen to paper and sweat out the story of her childhood.He was Truman Capote; she was Harper Lee.They would reunite in Kansas to create In Cold Blood, one of the most riveting works of mystery and true crime ever written. And they would start talk of an even greater, unspoken mystery and crime: What happened between them - and who really wrote To Kill a Mockingbird? How did two innocents from a backwoods Southern town go on to become two of the most celebrated writers of the twentieth century, and why - just a few years later - did they stop speaking to one another?Or did they?Author Kim Powers has conjured a sort of deathbed confession from Capote, in which he picks up the phone to Harper Lee one final time. In what would be the last year of his life - a year in which pills and booze are his only transportation - what final, all-important message does he send in a series of sinister and mysterious packages to Lee, who had fled from fame as quickly as it found her? And what do the ghosts of the Clutters want as they appear one by one to their creators, speaking up for the very human rights they lost the minute Capote first read of their murders? To their most unlikely mediums of Capote and Lee, what secrets of that night do they confess? Read Less