Dear Dead Woman is a 1940 mystery detective novel by Anthony Gilbert, the pen name of British writer Lucy Beatrice Malleson.

It is the seventh in her long-running series featuring the unscrupulous London solicitor and detective Arthur Crook.

[1] In 1942 it was published in America under the alternative title Death Takes a Redhead.

Seven years later, police search the house of the now remarried Jack Barton and find his first wife's corpse.

Arthur Crook is called in to handle Barton's defence following his arrest.