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Handcarved CoffinsEssay Preview: Handcarved CoffinsReport this essayIn Truman Capote’s novella, “Handcarved Coffins: A Nonfiction Account of an American Crime,” he gives a detailed description of numerous murders brilliantly executed in “a town in a small Western state” (Capote 68). These murders are so meticulously organized that the perpetrator is never brought to justice. However, the.