She Died A Lady is a 1943 mystery novel by Carter Dixon (pen name of John Dickson Carr) set in the Exmoor village of Lynmouth, and part of the Sir Henry Merrivale series.
An apparent double suicide of a couple is revealed to be murder when the bodies are found to have been shot at close range. But their footprints can be seen leading to the cliff they supposedly jumped off, with none leading away. Merrivale agrees to investigate.
Merrivale is largely forgotten now, but he appeared in 22 novels between 1992 and 1953. The character and his author were later fictionalised in Anthony Shaffer’s play Sleuth.
