Real life often can be stranger than fiction, and can also serve as excellent inspiration! Though some authors choose to craft tales of pure imagination, others take real life events and carefully weave fact into fiction. Here are three stories of murder and mystery inspired by real life events.
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote. A classic by all accounts, Truman Capote’s tale of the brutal murder of a local Kansas businessman, his wife, and their children, at the hands of two ex-farmhands is closely based on real life events. At the trial, the jury took just 45 minutes to arrive at the guilty verdict, which at the time carried a mandatory death sentence. It took Capote six years to write the book after extensive research, much of which was assisted by famed author Harper Lee.
Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie. Featuring Belgian Detective Hercule Poirot, Murder on the Orient Express was inspired by the real life tragedy of the kidnapping and murder of the Lindbergh baby just two years prior to the book’s publishing. The novel would later spawn two movie adaptations and serve as inspiration for three different television series as well.
The Long Drop by Denise Mina. The Long Drop tells the story of William Watt, a man wrongly accused of the murder of his family in 1950s Scotland, and Peter Manuel, the only man who seemed to have any answers. The award-winning Mina carefully crafts facts into a gripping tale of a dark and dangerous time.
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