As Superintendent Lodge and Inspector Butler question her friends and neighbours, flashback scenes play out widely differing interpretations of the dead woman and her behaviour.

Neighbour Mrs Finch tells Lodge that Agnes was a gentlewoman whereas her sister, Catherine Taylor, is rude and obnoxious.

Finch ran to get the help of Mr Pollard, the timid owner of a pet shop opposite the building.

Catherine claims that the day she visited her sister, Mrs Finch gave her a bad welcome.

On the day Catherine and Baker barged in and Mrs Finch asked for help, Pollard claims he bravely sent both of them away.

They ask Pollard to imagine a situation where Murray could have got drunk and entered Agnes's flat to kill her.

Monthly Film Bulletin said "As a detective story The Woman in Question lacks excitement because the script shows its hand too early: the murderer's identity is in fact revealed long before the climax, and the last episode (with the drunken Irish sailor, unhappily overplayed by John McCallum) therefore loses all its interest.

"[6] Boxoffice said "Murky, low-key photography, a formula whodunit-to-whom-and-why plot and a thespian roster that will have no meaning for American audiences mitigate against widespread acceptance of this British import in its U.S.

"[7] In The New York Times, Bosley Crowther wrote "It is not the mystery ... so much as it is the nimble twists and wry indications of personality that give this little item its appeal.

Jean Kent, who made herself distinctive in The Browning Version (1951) as the venomous wife, does a neat job of turning the lively facets of the woman in question in this piece ... We won't guarantee this little Rank film will knock you out of your chair, but it will certainly twit your risibilities while mildly stimulating your nerves.