The Woman in Red is a 1941 mystery thriller novel by Anthony Gilbert, the pen name of British writer Lucy Beatrice Malleson.

Desperate she accepts an unpromising job as a secretary to an odd red-clad lady she meets in a gloomy house in Mayfair, attended by sinister servants.

Taken to a lonely and secluded house, the few locals she comes into contact with are told that she is the old lady's niece, an unbalanced, suicidal woman named Sheila Campbell.

In 1945 it was adapted into the 1945 American film My Name Is Julia Ross directed by Joseph H. Lewis and starring Nina Foch and Dame May Whitty.

[3] Produced by Columbia Pictures it made a number of alterations from the original novel including the dropping of Arthur Crook from the story entirely.