Word: bodington
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hardest of all literary doors to force is the one that leads into the world of childhood. It is only fitting that the latest writer to try it is a mystery novelist. Shelley Smith's U.S. publisher is devoted to keeping her identity a mystery. But Mrs. Nancy Bodington does not mind identifying herself. She is a lady in her 40s who has used the pseudonym Shelley Smith for "mysteries because she wanted to save her real name for "the kind of books I wanted to write, such as Rachel Weeping." On the strength of this book, the more...
...even Mrs. Bodington would pretend that these three long stories make happy reading. They are all deeply tragic, and not even the slickness that shows occasionally as the result of her training in whodunits can damage the soundness of her insights. As one teen-age character says of his parents: "They really are quite decent, when one considers how incredibly dense and selfish grownups are." But decency in these stories turns out to be not quite enough...
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