
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...
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

Eliot Makeham
Simpson

Reginald Purdell
MacBride

Gwen Ffrangcon Davies
Woman (uncredited)
Crew
Arthur B. Woods
Director
Harold Goldman
Screenplay
Monckton Hoffe
Screenplay

Angus MacPhail
Screenplay
Dorothy L. Sayers
Novel
Al Barnes
Editor

Freddie Young
Director of Photography

Harold Huth
Associate Producer
A.W. Watkins
Sound Recordist
C. C. Stevens
Sound Recordist
Louis Levy
Music
Dora Wright
Production Manager
Muriel St. Clare
Theatre Play

Alfred Junge
Art Direction
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