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Anne Perry and the Murder of the Century

Peter Graham

On June 22, 1954, teenage friends Juliet Hulme—better known as bestselling mystery writer Anne Perry—and Pauline Parker went for a walk in a New Zealand park with Pauline’s mother, Honora. Half an hour later, the girls returned alone, claiming that Pauline’s mother had had an accident. But when Hono...

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Peter Graham wrote about the girls' upbringing and how they were seen by others. He also wrote about Pauline being angry, rebellious, and feeling different from the other girls at the school.

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It seems that Hilda and Henry Hume were happy to forgo for as long as they could the company of their daughter, whose quote, defects in temperament and personality made her difficult and troublesome t...

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Episode: Episode 572: Heavenly Creatures: The Parker-Hulme...

Peter Graham wrote about the girls' upbringing and how they were seen by others. He also wrote about Pauline being angry, rebellious, and feeling different from the other girls at the school.

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It seems that Hilda and Henry Hume were happy to forgo for as long as they could the company of their daughter, whose quote, defects in temperament and personality made her difficult and troublesome to handle.

angry and rebellious, felt different from the other girls, resisted discipline, and spoke sarcastically to the teachers.

as early as March of 1953, Pauline was writing about highway robberies and often more than one violent death a day.

Pauline would never forget the unhappiness of her childhood and seemed to blame most of that unhappiness on her mother.

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