Shelley Smith

Nancey Hermione Bodington (12 July 1912 – 1998), better known under her pen name Shelley Smith, was a British crime writer. Bodington was born Nancy Courlander, daughter of Leonard Henry and Maud Eva Courlander, in 1912 in Surrey, married Stephen Bodington in 1931, and lived in Steyning, Sussex. She wrote crime novels, mostly under the name Shelley Smith, also short stories and at least one screenplay. She started out with whodunnits featuring Jacob Chaos, a private detective, and moved on to psychological suspense.