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Anne Perry is a prolific author of historical detective fiction, mostly set either during the Victorian era or during World War One. She has two ongoing serial Victorian detectives; Thomas Pitt, who first appeared in The Cater Street Hangman (1979), and William Monk, whose first case was in The Face of a Stranger (1990) and who and had featured in thirty and twenty-one novels respectively by 2015.
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Korte, Barbara, ‘Anne Perry: World War I as Period Mystery’, Clues: A Journal of Detection, 28:1 (2010), 79–89.
Rye, Marilyn, ‘Anne Perry’, in Dictionary of Literary Biography, Volume 276: British Mystery and Thriller Writers Since 1960, ed. by Gina Macdonald (Detroit, MI: Thomson Gale, 2003), pp. 269–283.
The Official Anne Perry Website. http://www.anneperry.co.uk/.
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Cingal, D. (2020). Anne Perry (Pseudonym of Juliet Hulme, b. 1938), 1979: The Cater Street Hangman. In: Miskimmin, E. (eds) 100 British Crime Writers. Crime Files. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-31902-9_68
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