Anne Perry, born Juliet Hulme, kept her dark secret hidden until 1994, when she finally revealed that she and her friend had killed her friend's mother in 1954.
CRAIG BROWN: Two crime novelists have been attracting a lot of attention recently. The first, Anne Perry (pictured), died on April 10, aged 84, having lived most of her life hiding a secret.
Anne Perry, a prolific British-born crime novelist of stories that explored the dark corners of the Victorian age, who also kept her own chilling secret for decades after serving five years in prison for murder in a teenage plot with her best friend, died April 10 at a hospital in Los Angeles. She was 84.