Shelley Smith

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  • Bibliography:
    17 Books
  • First Book:
    April 1985
  • Latest Book:
    February 2020
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Book List in Order: 17 titles

  • The Cellar at No. 5

    Mrs. Rampage lives alone, in a large house cluttered with her precious objets d'art. Her daughter is half a world away, and her niece has no time for the old lady. So Mrs. Rampage is persuaded - much against her will - to take a companion into her ho...

  • Come and Be Killed!

    Florence Brown is a burden to herself and to her actresssister, Phoebe. After Florence's one pitiful attempt at suicide, Phoebe persuades her to go to the nursing home in the country. But Florence does not trust her sister and runs off, straight into...

  • Horizon of the Heart

  • The Pearls

  • An Afternoon to Kill

    Lancelot Jones is a young Englishman on his way to a small town in India where he will take up a teaching post when his plane is inconveniently grounded miles from his destination. The pilot tells him that it is a minor mechanical problem and repairs...

  • Edge of Passion

    From cover: "From the moment Angela saw Mickey sitting at the end of the smokey bar at the Blue Moon Cafe, she was consumed with desire for this cool and sophisticated woman, and determined to have her...at any cost. Set against the backdrop of color...

  • The Woman in the Sea

    It begins with a gruesome discovery… While on an outing to the beach, thirteen-year-old Meg and the other children find what at first sight looks like a pretty piece of seaweed, but turns out to be the body of a woman floating among the rocks with...

  • The Lord Have Mercy

    The married life of Robert Mansbridge and his wife Editha is the talk of the village. Whispers of infidelity and wantonness abound; whilst most of their neighbours respect the doctor, Editha is regarded as a shrew. Meanwhile, timid Catherine Duncton ...

  • This Is the House

    On a picturesque West Indies island, the capital is dominated by the house on the mountaintop: the house that Jacques built. Premier Justice Antoine Jacques was divinely happy with his beautiful wife Julia and their son Raoul - until Julia was strick...



  • Background for Murder

    In a psychiatric hospital, the head doctor lies dead - his skull smashed in with a brass poker. Private investigator Jacob Chaos is called in by Scotland Yard to investigate. But there are many people who might have wished harm upon Dr. Royd: the pat...

  • Death Stalks a Lady

    After the death of her father, Judith Allen travels across the Atlantic to join the rest of her estranged family in the UK. Upon arrival, she discovers a dead woman in the garage of her mother's house, and is soon thrown into a whirlwind of adventure...

  • Sting of Death

    Devoted wife and mother Linda Campion is found dead in her hall, sprawled on the marble floor, clutching a Catholic medallion of Saint Therese. An accidental tumble over the banisters? A suicidal plummet? Or is there an even more sinister explanation...

  • The Missing Schoolgirl

    A schoolgirl goes missing after speaking to a strange man. A jilted painter sets out to take revenge on his rival in both love and art. A room to let harbours a macabre secret. A man fears his soul has been stolen. A woman is haunted by visions of a ...

  • The Crooked Man

    The life and crimes of Thomas Bates are fated to spiral with a horrid inevitability from petty thievery to murder. There's Grace Pickering, whose life he saves and who rewards him with a passionate affection he attempts to avoid - until he learns abo...

  • The Ballad Of The Running Man

    On the Alps, two schoolteachers discover a gruesome sight - the corpse of a murdered man. How the corpse came to be there is the story of Rex Buchanan and his wife Paula. Rex, a pulp fiction author, comes home one day eager to tell Paula about a fant...

  • A Grave Affair

    When Edmund Burke, MP meets the woman he loves on a sunny afternoon, he cannot know that it is for the last time, or that a brilliant career is about to collapse in a scandal of murder and blackmail. Edmund, deep in negotiations that promise peace in...

  • A Game of Consequences

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    Tom Ransome was jobless, on the brink homelessness and at his wit’s end when he bumped into Jeremy Eskdale… The two men had not met since their days at Rugby, until that chance encounter in the Flying Fox which was so strangely to alter thei...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Shelley Smith has published 17 books.

Shelley Smith does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, A Grave Affair, was published in February 2020.

The first book by Shelley Smith, The Cellar at No. 5, was published in April 1985.

No. Shelley Smith does not write books in series.
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