Anne Perry and the Murder of the Century (Paperback)

from jlsimon7

I bought this book as an audio. The story was relatively interesting. I can't tell for sure if it was written well because the narrator was painful and drug the story out to the point that instead of listening to a crime book you felt like you were listening to a mortician. It was just painful.

from KurtWombat

Regarded as the MURDER OF THE CENTURY in the middle of a century that would see truly greater crimes, I opened this book eager to take the pulse of those tumultuous times. All too often this book flat-lined. It struggled as a history to find a point of view and seldom found a dramatic drive and i...

from CasaBooks

"Folie a deux"?? I must have heard about this murder-story in the 90's - Anne Perry, famous author, was(imho)a teenage mutant sicko-weird,murderess. She hasn't been on my reading-list, so it must have skimmed right over my head. I always enjoy non-fiction with "the story behind the story", and th...

from JanaRose1

In 1954 Anne Perry (Juliet Hulme) and Pauline Parker murdered Pauline's mother Honora. Authorities quickly arrested the teenagers, making headlines across the world. During the trial, homosexuality and insanity were brought to the forefront by the prosecutor and defense team. Convicted, the two g...

from picardyrose

Anne Perry -- Juliet Hulme -- and her friend, Pauline Parker, killed Pauline's mother when the girls were teenagers. Their crime, which they said was to prevent their parents from separating them, stunned New Zealand. Peter Jackson made an oddly sympathetic movie about the crime, "Heavenly Creatu...