Miss Tulip Stays the Night (also known as Dead by Morning) is a 1955 British comedy crime film starring Diana Dors, Patrick Holt, Jack Hulbert and Cicely Courtneidge. It was the last major feature film directed by Leslie Arliss. The screenplay concerns a crime writer and his wife who stay at a country house where a mysterious corpse appears.
Plot
Novelist Andrew Dax and his wife Kate are sleeping peacefully in their new cottage when a mysterious older lady arrives, apparently stranded in a storm. She hands Andrew her gun and some jewellery for safe keeping, and asks for a bed for the night. She is shot during the night and Andrew is accused of the crime. He must act as a detective to defend himself.