The third volume of the collected works of the American writer Truman Capote introduces the reader to Capote the novelist: it includes selected stories from the author's collections of 1949–1966, as well as the author's last book, the collection of short stories “Music for Chameleons” (1980). The pages of the writer's final masterpiece are inhabited by a mysterious killer who sends letters to his victims with news of their imminent death, an exemplary family man obsessed with a destructive passion for a twelve-year-old girl whom he has never seen, and finally, Capote himself, who in all situations and circumstances remains sophisticated, evil and at the same time a compassionate observer of the human “menagerie”...