Himself through the eyes of others, and that could be a very unnerving experience. TERRY GROSS: He's in the position of having to learn who he is by seeing what other people think of him. The most important mystery that faced him was the mystery of his own identity. When Monk was introduced in the novel "The Face Of A Stranger," he was just regaining consciousness from an accident to find he had totally lost his memory. Terry began with her latest book, her 20th, called "The Sins Of The Wolf." It was the fifth in her series featuring Detective William Monk. Terry spoke to Anne Perry in 1994, just months after her story had come out. Perry was English but was sent to New Zealand as a girl to recover from tuberculosis. She had changed her name and moved across the ocean after spending 5 1/2 years in a New Zealand prison. Perry's involvement with the murder would have remained a secret if not for the 1994 Peter Jackson film "Heavenly Creatures," starring a young Kate Winslet and Melanie Lynskey, which dramatized the incident. When Anne Perry was 15 years old, she helped her best friend murder that friend's mother. In 1998, the Times of London included her on the list of 100 masters of crime of the past century, placing her alongside Agatha Christie, Raymond Chandler and Arthur Conan Doyle.
She was the author of several historical mystery series featuring central characters Thomas Pitt and William Monk. Today we're going to remember Anne Perry, a popular mystery writer who for decades kept secret her participation in a murder as a teenager.
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