Capote and his swans

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BEHIND THE BIG CRIME

Why books that became beloved classics struggled to find their way into print

That threatened thrones

Much to his own wife’s relief, author Peter Swanson has just used his imagination — and a love of Hitchcock — to fire his latest thriller about a failing marriage