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Hulme took the name Anne Perry, the latter being her stepfather's surname.

Her first novel, The Cater Street Hangman, was published under this name in 1979.

Her works generally fall into one of several categories of genre fiction, including historical murder mysteries and detective fiction.

Many of them feature a number of recurring characters, most importantly Thomas Pitt, who appeared in her first novel, and amnesiac private investigator William Monk, who first appeared in her 1990 novel The Face of a Stranger.

As of 2003 she had published 47 novels, and several collections of short stories.

Her story " Heroes ", which first appeared in the 1999 anthology Murder and Obsession, edited by Otto Penzler, won the 2001 Edgar Award for Best Short Story.