Capote in Kansas A Ghost Story

They were children - she, a tomboy in overalls; he, a summer visitor from New Orleans, always dressed in immaculate white linen. Growing up next door to each other, they did the things of an eccentric Southern childhood - solved make-believe mysteries, played cub reporter, even got pretend-married in the shade of a chinaberry tree. Twenty five years later, he had exchanged the white linen for a velvet suit and a poison pen and taken New York's literary world by storm, while she struggled to put pen to paper and sweat out the story of her childhood, in a fifth floor walk-up in the same city. He was Truman Capote; she was Harper Lee. They would reunite in the desolate plains of 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?Powers, Kim is the author of 'Capote in Kansas A Ghost Story', published 2007 under ISBN 9780786720330 and ISBN 0786720336.