 She committed suicide during the first Bank Holiday weekend of August 1973, drowning herself off Brighton's Palace Pier, weeks before the death of her contemporary B. S. Johnson.A witness named Albert Fox saw a woman walking into the sea and contacted the police; the next day, a yachtsman found a body near Shoreham Harbour.An appeal was launched in Brighton & Hove's local newspaper, "The Argus," and the woman was identified as Quin.