Author of "How to murder your husband" arrested and charged with murder

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Crampton Brophy, 68, was arrested Sept. 5 on charges of murdering her husband with a gun and unlawful use of a weapon in the death of her husband, Daniel Brophy.

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The Portland, Ore.-based romance novelist wrote books about relationships that were “wrong” but “never felt so right,” often featuring bare-chested men on the cover.

In “The Wrong Cop,” she wrote about a woman who “spent every day of her marriage fantasizing about killing” her husband. In “The Wrong Husband,” a woman tried to flee an abusive husband by faking her death. And in “How to Murder Your Husband” — an essay — Crampton Brophy wrote about how to get away with it.

She wrote the post on the blog “See Jane Publish” in November 2011, describing five core motives and a number of murder weapons from which she would choose if her character were to kill a husband in a romance novel. She advised against hiring a hit man to do the dirty work — “an amazing number of hit men rat you out to the police” — and against hiring a lover.

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