British crime novelist
Anne Perry
, who
sold
25 million copies of his works
worldwide and
She was known for
murdering her best friend's mother
, she died in Los Angeles at the age of 84.
Author of "The fires of Highgate Rise", "A dark sea" or "The Cater Street murders" where she built her famous characters
William Monk and Charlotte and Thomas Pitt
, the writer transcended in her adolescence for having
murdered the mother of her best friend with her
.
The author, whose original name was Juliet Hulme
, committed the murder in 1954 when
he was 15 years old
and lived in New Zealand, where he cultivated a dependent friendship with Pauline Parker.
The author and her friend were tried and sentenced to several years' imprisonment in New Zealand for the murder of Honorah Rieper.
The event was taken to the movies in the film
"Heavenly Creatures"
, by Peter Jackson, where Perry is played by Kate Winslet.
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 teenagers were imprisoned and
Perry was released after 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 stewardess, 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.
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 who I am now, instead of who I was then?" he asked himself.
Anne Perry, who had lived in Los Angeles for several years, passed away Monday, the 10/18 label reported in a statement.
The story will remember "her exceptional characters, her historical accuracy, the quality of her detective stories and her interest in social issues," the company that published her work added.
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