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Originally Posted by AnnGirdharry
hello Gregg,
Actually I have a preference for
3) = another way
Her vulnerability, her inability to tolerate ridicule, led her to kill.
because -
The final 'had' hammers the sentence too hard and takes out the immediacy (the reader intuits this is in the past)
human being ?- well, if it's a suspense then the reader will intuit also that she killed a person (and not a dog, cat etc.)
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It changes the tense from the pluperfect to the perfect, certainly. Whether or not that is a desirable thing is for the author to decide; as you say, they have different meanings.