Writer Anne Perry, successful crime novelist and criminal in real life, has died

author of “The Highgate Rise Fires”, “A Dark Sea” either “The Cater Street Murders” where she built her famous characters William Monk and Charlotte and Thomas Pitt, the author, who died last Monday, transcended in her adolescence for having murdered her best friend’s mother, along with her, a fact that was taken to the film “Heavenly Creatures”of Peter Jacksonwhere Perry is played by Kate Winslet.

The author, whose original name was Juliet Hülmecommitted the murder in 1954 when he was 15 years old, and lived in New Zealand, where he cultivated a dependent friendship with Pauline Parker.

Prior to that event, the author’s parents decided to move abroad and the adolescents were excited about the possibility that Hulme would move to live with her and her family. But, before the refusal of the mother of her friend, Honora Mary Parkerfor their daughter to move, they plotted the murder of the woman, whom they attacked with bricks and caused her death.

The murder shocked the entire country, where morbid attention was aroused by the death of a mother at the hands of her daughter and a friend, and by rumors that the two had a loving relationship, which was denied by Perry.

Being minors, the adolescents were imprisoned and Perry regained his freedom in five years and when he was released from prison, he changed his name and with that new identity he changed his life: he worked for a time as a flight attendant, became a Mormon and settled in Scotland .

Under this new identity, in 1979 he published his first novel in a very long and successful career, marked especially by two series of books set in Victorian England: on the one hand, those that are focused on the character of William Monk, with titles like A dark sea and blind Justice; and, on the other, the one starring Charlotte and Thomas Pitt, which began with The Cater Street Murders in 1979.

“Perry was selected by The Times newspaper as one of the 100 best crime writers of the 20th century”recalls her page on the website of the Carmen Balcells literary agency, according to the newspaper El País.

His real name and his past were revealed by the press in the 90s, when his story was adapted for the big screen. “Everything I had achieved as an honest member of society was under threat,” he told The Guardian newspaper in 2003. “Why couldn’t I be judged for what I am now, rather than what I was then?” .

Anne Perry, who had lived in Los Angeles for several years, passed away on Monday, the 10/18 label reported in a statement. The story will remember “his exceptional characters, his historical accuracy, the quality of his crime novels and his interest in social issues,” added 10/18, which edited his work.