

When Lord Peter Wimsey marries Harriet Vane, a crime author, they both promise to give up crime for good. As a wedding present, Peter purchases the old house where Harriet grew up, but when they try to move in the previous owner is nowhere to be found, until they start to clean the house and find his body in the cellar...
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Cast

Robert Montgomery
Lord Peter Wimsey

Constance Cummings
Harriet Vane

Leslie Banks
Inspector Kirk

Seymour Hicks
Mervyn Bunter (as Sir Seymour Hicks)

Robert Newton
Frank Crutchley

Googie Withers
Polly

Frank Pettingell
Puffett

Joan Kemp-Welch
Aggie Twitterton

Aubrey Mallalieu
Rev. Simon Goodacre
James Carney
Constable Sellon

Roy Emerton
Noakes

Louise Hampton
Mrs. Ruddle
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