“She threatened to kill herself if I didn’t help,” Perry told The Guardian in 2003. Perry would later explain she felt obligated to help her friend, whom she feared might take her own life. But in her mid-teens, in 1954, her parents were divorcing and she was told she would be moving to South Africa.Īnimatronic dragon bursts into flames during Disneyland showīecause they were minors, the girls were spared the death penalty and instead each served five years in prison. In school, she formed an intense friendship with classmate Pauline Parker.
Perry published more than 100 books, often set in Victorian England, with notable works including the novels “Death of a Stranger,” “Buckingham Palace Gardens” and one scheduled for September, “The Traitor Among Us.” She sold millions of copies and received some of the top honors for crime writing, among them an Edgar Award for the short story “Heroes” and an Agatha Award for lifetime achievement.īut another story, one of lasting notoriety, came from her own life.īorn Juliet Hulme, she was a London native whose diagnosis for tuberculosis led her family to seek a warmer climate, eventually settling in New Zealand. Perry died Monday in Los Angeles from complications of a stroke and several heart attacks, according to her literary agent in North America, Donald Maass. NEW YORK (AP) - 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.
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