The Search for Anne Perry by Joanne Drayton

Author:Joanne Drayton [Drayton, Joanne]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Published: 2012-10-06T11:00:00+00:00

Deborah rang and we decided to use a rock in a stocking rather than a sandbag. We discussed the moider fully. I feel very keyed up as though I were planning a Surprise party. Mother has fallen in with everything beautifully and the happy event is to take place tomorrow afternoon. So next time I write in this diary Mother will be dead. How odd yet how pleasing.80

It is remarkable how distanced Pauline was from the act of murder, and how abstract it was in her imagination. The girls clinically made plans to take someone’s life, yet their concept of death and killing was juvenile and unreal. The use of the hard-boiled, penny-dreadful word ‘moider’ distanced the act still further. They had no proper notion of what they were about to do or encounter.

Pauline’s last diary entry, made before she got out of bed on the morning of 22 June 1954, anticipated a nightmare that would haunt the lives of those involved forever. The event she announced would rob Honorah of her life, and Pauline and her friend Juliet of their childhoods. It would shock sleepy, provincial Christchurch to its core and provide scandalizing copy for newspapers, magazines, radio broadcasts and books worldwide. Under the heading, ‘The Day of the Happy Event’, she wrote:

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