Hey there, Once Upon a Crime fans. This is Mike Brown from the Dark Putine podcast. I just want to congratulate Esther and Once Upon a Crime for their 100th episode. We dig what you do and we hope that you keep doing it, wishing you another 100 and 100 after that. Congratulations and happy anniversary.

Congratulations on your hundredth episode

Esther it's very amazing and I'm glad that you've been so successful and keep

growing every day this is Justin from the Generation Y this podcast details true

crime cases it contains adult themes and may contain descriptions

of violence. It is not intended for children. Listener discretion is advised.

Thank you for joining me for today's episode of Once Upon a Crime. So far in this series, I've taken you around the world to discover stories of writers and authors who have committed murder.

In Chapter 1, I took you to Japan for a story about a cannibal killer.

Then in Chapter 2, we found out about a popular author in the Netherlands, who was also a wife killer.

In this chapter, I'll discuss an infamous crime from New Zealand.

In this third installment of Written in Blood, I'll tell you the story of a woman who was one of the most successful crime fiction authors in history.

She has sold over 25 million books worldwide and is a prolific writer.

She has written almost 90 novels, six short story collections and anthologies, and one

nonfiction book to date.

But this author has kept a deep, dark secret about her past, hidden for 40 years,

until a movie version of that story was released in 1994. has kept a deep, dark secret about her past, hidden for 40 years,

until a movie version of that story was released in 1994,

bringing the whole sorted story back to light.

This case will be told in two parts.

This is the story of Anne Perry.

On June 22nd, 1954, around 3.30 p.m., Agnes Ritchie was working inside her tea shop, located in Victoria Park, just south of the city of Christchurch, New Zealand. Suddenly, two girls came bursting through the doors. One girl was short and stocky with dark curly hair. The other was tall, with long light brown hair.

They both appeared to be in their mid-teens.

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