Anne Perry: From convicted murderer to crime writer.

Anne Perry spent five years in prison convicted of the brutal murder of her friend Pauline's mother.

Anne Perry spent five years in prison convicted of the brutal murder of her friend Pauline's mother.

Juliet Marion Hülme (London, 1938) is the real name of Anne Perry, one of the most widely read intrigue writers of the Anglo-Saxon world. His most popular crime series among the readers is set in Victorian times and starring the policeman Thomas pitt. Pitt is married to Charlotte, a woman of a superior social class who collaborates in the resolution of her cases showing remarkable cunning, who exploits her family's contacts to solve the cases in which her husband becomes entangled. A second seriese formed by the Monk marriage completes Perry's noir novel, who has made inroads into other genres as well.

Class difference, romantic overtones, the secondary role of women in one of the most famous periods in the history of England, dirt and poverty framing the London more classic, they create a unique setting for detective plots that Anne Perry exploits with sagacity and talent.

Juliet Hulme, convicted of murder.

With only 16 years, when the Hulme family were living in New Zealand due to the work of Juliet's father, rector of the University of Canterbury, Juliet and her friend Pauline killed the latter's mother, Honora Rieper, assisting him 45 blows with a stone. After five years in prison, the New Zealand justice released them on the condition that Juliet and Pauline did not get in touch again.

At the trial the homosexual relationship that they kept Juliet and Pauline and their plans to go to the United States to publish the novels they liked to write about imaginary worlds. Juliet's parents 'plans to move to South Africa and the families' opposition to Pauline accompanying her were seen as the trigger for the plan to kill Pauline's mother.

Five years after the trial and after his put in LibertyJuliet left New Zealand, started working as a flight attendant and, after living in different places, moved to Scotland with her mother and her husband.

Juliet Hulme becomes Anne Perry.

Before moving with her mother to Scotland, Juliet changed her name to Anne Perry, spent a season in United States wherever joined the Church of Mormons, a religion of which she is still devoted, and began to write. They had to pass twenty years to see his first novel published, The Carter Street Crimes, from the series starring Thomas Pitt.

«I like his doctrine which consists in learning, always, and in which nobody is excluded. Nobody is punished »says Anne Perry about Mormon doctrine.

Victorian London, scene of the two crime novel sagas written by Anne Perry.

Victorian London, scene of the two crime novel sagas written by Anne Perry.

Anne Perry, a life in which there is no room for oblivion.

His story led to a titled movie Celestial Creatures starring in 1994 by starring Melanie Kynskey as Pauline and Kate Winslet in Juliet Hulme's (Anne Perry), awarded with the Silver lion that same year at the Venice International Film Festival.

The film was shot without his permission and led to a drop in sales of his books around the world.

Justifying the crime due to the experimental medication he was taking to treat his tuberculosis, to adolescence, to his next change of residence and to the divorce of his parents, Anne Perry has spent the years since the film was released asking the world to forget her actions.

Anne Perry is still active at 91 years old, his latest book, it was published in 2018: Revenge on the Thames, from the series starring William and Hester Monk.

The collective memory was his punishment, it is too late to achieve the oblivion that he so longed for.


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