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      • Today we're going to remember Anne Perry, a popular mystery writer who for decades kept secret her participation in a murder as a teenager. Perry died last week at the age of 84. She was the author of several historical mystery series featuring central characters Thomas Pitt and William Monk.
      www.npr.org/2023/04/21/1171046614/remembering-historical-crime-novelist-anne-perry
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    Anne Perry (born Juliet Marion Hulme; 28 October 1938 – 10 April 2023) was a British writer and murderer. She was the author of the Thomas and Charlotte Pitt and William Monk series of historical detective fiction. In 1994 it became public knowledge that Perry had been convicted of murder in Christchurch, New

  3. Apr 13, 2023 · Crime author Anne Perry, who, as a teenager helped murder her friend's mother, has died aged 84. The writer served five years in prison from the age of 15 for bludgeoning Honorah Mary Parker to...

  4. May 12, 2023 · Anne Perry, a prolific and successful British author of popular mystery novels, passed away in April of 2023 at age 84. In 1991, her own hautning past as Juliet Hulme came to light. Her life and legacy are characterized by her transformation from notorious criminal to beloved crime fiction author.

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  5. Apr 21, 2023 · Today we're going to remember Anne Perry, a popular mystery writer who for decades kept secret her participation in a murder as a teenager. Perry died last week at the age of 84. She was the...

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    Juliet Marion Hulme was born on Oct 28, 1938, in London as the elder of two children to physicist Dr. Henry Rainsford Hulme, who led Britain’s atomic weapons research, and his wife, Hilda Marion Hulme, a marriage counsellor. At age 6, Hulme was diagnosed with tuberculosis and lived in and out of hospitals for most of her childhood. At 8, she was se...

    When Juliet’s parents announced that they would be leaving New Zealand, the girls were so distraught at the thought of separating from each other that they came up with all sorts of wild solutions including running away together. And, when that did not work out, they planned to murder Pauline’s mother (Honorah Rieper) who they saw as the main obsta...

    After her release, Perry spent nearly 20 years working in different fields, serving as a retail salesperson, a flight attendant and a limousine dispatcher, before pursuing her childhood passion of writing books. She published her first novel, “The Cater Street Hangman” in 1979, which follows William Pitt, a policeman in Victorian-era London in 1881...

  6. Apr 13, 2023 · Anne Perry, the best-selling crime novelist known for her Thomas Pitt and William Monk detective series and for her own murderous past that inspired the movie “Heavenly Creatures,” has died at age 84.

  7. Sep 30, 2021 · Since her career kicked off with The Cater Street Hangman some 40 years ago, British author Anne Perry has mastered the historical fiction crime genre with her cultural accuracy, compelling narratives, and hopeful sensibility. This prolific author has about 100 books to her name, and at 83 years old is still going strong.