SO BRILLIANTLY CLEVER: PARKER, HULME AND THE MURDER THAT SHOCKED THE WORLD
Book ID/图书代码： 01150511B49105
English Summary/英文概要： The true story that inspired Peter Jackson’s acclaimed film, Heavenly Creatures.
‘Why could Mother not die? Dozens of people are dying all the time, thousands, so why not Mother?’
Pauline Parker, 14th February 1954.
On 22nd June 1954, in the depths of a New Zealand winter, teenage friends Juliet Hulme and Pauline Parker went for a walk in the park with Pauline’s mother. Half an hour later the girls returned alone. Honorah Parker lay in a sea of blood on a lonely track. She had been savagely murdered.
With Parker and Hulme quickly arrested, the story made shock headlines around the world. Not since the case of Leopold and Loeb in 1920s Chicago had two intelligent, well-educated young people with bright futures ahead of them carried out an act of such unimaginable brutality. The international media flocked to New Zealand to cover the trial, and people everywhere struggled to understand what lay behind the crime. Were the girls mad, or simply evil?
In this mesmerising book, lawyer and true crime writer Peter Graham tells the whole story for the first time - giving a brilliant account of the crime and ensuing trial, dramatic revelations about the fate of Juliet Hulme and Pauline Parker after their release from prison, their strange lives today, and
a penetrating insight into the crime using modern psychology.
It’s an extraordinary story that continues to fascinate to this day - particularly since one of the girls was revealed to be the best-selling crime writer Anne Perry.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 这样一个真实的故事激发了彼特.杰克逊拍了一部广为称道的电影《罪孽天使》。 “为什么妈妈不会死？一直都有那么多人死去，成千上万的人死去，为什么妈妈不死呢？”
保林.帕克，1954年2月14日
1954年6月22日，那是是新西兰的隆冬时节的一天，少年朱丽叶.休姆和她的朋友保林.帕克和保林的妈妈一起去公园散步。半小时之后，女孩们独自回来了。而在寂静的小路上霍纳拉.帕克却躺在血泊之中。她被残忍地杀害了。
很快，帕克和休姆都被逮捕了。这件事成为世界各地报纸的头版头条。而就在20世纪20年代芝加哥也发生了类似的事件，两名聪明、受过良好教育且有着光明前途的年轻人利奥伯德和勒布也做出了这样令人难以想象的暴行。世界各地各大媒体都蜂拥赶至新西兰去报道审讯过程。各地的人们也都努力想去了解罪行之后到底隐含着什么。这两个女孩是疯了还是她们本质就是邪恶的？
在这本引人入胜的书中，律师兼犯罪小说作家彼得.格雷厄姆第一次完整地讲述了整个故事。并精彩地叙述了这次罪行及随后的审讯过程。戏剧性地揭露了朱丽叶.休姆和保林.帕克获释之后的命运以及她们如今奇特的生活。此外，他还运用现代心理学犀利地洞悉了这一罪行。
时至今日，这一令人惊奇的事件仍然吸引人们的关注，尤其是其中一个女孩竟然被揭露就是当今畅销犯罪小说的作家安妮.佩里。(兼职翻译-XMM)
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About the Author/作者介绍： 彼得.格雷厄姆在香港从事了三十年的辩护律师工作。2004年回到新西兰后便开始了他作为犯罪小说作家的生涯。他的第一本书《邪恶的犯罪》是关于两起骇人听闻的中毒事件。这本书在2004年由坎特伯雷大学出版社出版。 Peter Graham worked for thirty years in Hong Kong as a barrister before returning to New Zealand in 2004 to pursue a career as a crime writer. His first book, Vile Crimes, about two notorious poisonings, was published by Canterbury University Press in 2004.
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