British mystery writer ANNE PERRY is the author of 19 crime novels based in Victorian England. It was recently discovered that forty years ago, PERRY took part in a murder. She was 15 and on medication for an illness she had at the time. She went to jail for five and a half years. Her newly released 20th book, "The Sins of the Wolf" (Fawcett Columbine), is about a nurse imprisioned for a crime she didn't commit.
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