He seemed astonished, at first, that old friends hung up the telephone when he called, and that others took trouble to avoid him. “It collected brilliantly and with relish related every ugly fact and rumor about New York’s glitterati that Truman Capote, in years of knowing and mixing with them, had assembled.
“That work finished Truman Capote’s social life as decisively as a hangman’s trapdoor,” Buckley told readers. Shortly before Murder by Death entered production, Capote had published a portion of Answered Prayers, his unfinished novel, in Esquire. The plot, in which many wanted the worst for Twain, seemed a wry case of art imitating life.
Buckley instead recalled a 1976 visit to the set of Neil Simon’s campy mystery movie, Murder by Death, which featured Capote as homicide victim Lionel Twain.
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