MOTHER FINDS A BODY

My library doesn't have copies of Gypsy Rose Lee's murder fiction, but I checked and this was the second in the series that began with the G-String Murders.

Not shy about using her reputation as a stripper to be an author of noir, I suspect the woman who started out life as Rose Louise Hovick could give contemporary women some strong business advice.  I'm especially interested to know if Mother Rose, the stage mother from hell, was used to base the character of the Mother who finds a body.  Oh, and by the way, one source says that there is a possibility that Mother Rose murdered her room mate at one point.  Or was it a suicide?