Anne Perry died in a hospital in Los Angeles. As her agent told the media, the writer suffered a heart attack in December 2022, and her health has been gradually deteriorating since then, informs . “Anne was a loyal and loving friend, and her work was fueled by a passionate commitment to publicizing the problem of social injustice. Many readers were touched by her empathy for people faced with impossible situations or overwhelmed by life’s hardships,” Ki Agency said in a statement.
Anne Perry is dead. She went from teenage murderer to writer
Perry published her first book, The Cater Street Hangman, in 1979. Over the years, she has created several different series of historical detective novels. Among the most popular were the one about private detective William Monk (do not confuse this character with the TV series Adrian Monk) or the one focusing on the adventures of Thomas Pitt – a Victorian policeman who became an investigator. It is estimated that her books have sold a total of 25 million copies worldwide.
You need to know that Anne Perry is a literary pseudonym that the author took to cut herself off from the past. The story of the writer and her friend from her youth was the inspiration for the Peter Jackson-directed film “Heavenly Beings”, in which Kate Winslet and Melanie Lynskey debuted in the main roles.
Perry’s real name was Juliet Hulme and she was born in 1938 in England. When she was 10, her family moved to New Zealand, where her father became chancellor of the University of Canterbury in Christchurch. It was at the girls’ school in Christchurch that Hulme met Pauline Yvonne Parker (aka Pauline Rieper). A strong and complicated relationship developed between them – the girls came up with m.in. their own religion and separate dimension, they also wrote numerous stories and plays together. As adults, they wanted to go to Hollywood and pursue writing. Their friendship was so unusual that they couldn’t imagine life without each other – and in 1954 there was a real risk that Juliet would move out of New Zealand. Her parents divorced and she was supposed to go to relatives in Africa. The distorted perception of the girls’ reality led them to the conclusion that only Pauline’s mother stands in the way of their joint departure. So together they planned her murder.
On June 22, 1954, they arranged to go for a walk with Honorah Rieper, and it was then that they bludgeoned an unsuspecting victim to death with a brick stuck in her stocking. At first they tried to testify that it was an accident, but the police investigating the crime scene quickly found the weapon with which the fatal blows were dealt. The trial of teenagers was one of the most famous media events of the time. Since both perpetrators were minors, the law did not allow for the possibility of imposing the death penalty on them. Ultimately, each of them was imprisoned for five years, and after the end of their sentences, they broke off all contact with each other. Each of them changed their surnames, and Juliet, in accordance with her youthful plans, became a writer. Their case was revived in 1994 when Peter Jackson’s Oscar-nominated film hit theaters. It was then established that Juliet Hulme and Anne Perry were the same person.
Source: Gazeta
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