A Lady in the Lake: The True Account of Death and Discovery in Lake Placid

The book is about the discovery of the body of Mabel Smith Douglas, a very important feminist (though I am not sure if she would have considered herself such), who founded and was the first dean of the NJ college for women, that later became a part of Rutgers university.The book posits several reason why she may have ended up in the Lake, but as it seems mental health issues ran in her family, and the way the body was found, it leads the reader to an obvious conclusion. A movie is being made, based on the novel, Dancehall by Bernard F. Conners , but the movie will not be about Mabel Douglass. The movie will use nothing but the gory details of the way her body was found for a different woman and murder mystery. ( Amazon customer)