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...
Robert Montgomery
as Lord Peter Wimsey
Constance Cummings
as Harriet Vane
Leslie Banks
as Inspector Kirk
Seymour Hicks
as Mervyn Bunter (as Sir Seymour Hicks)
Robert Newton
as Frank Crutchley
Googie Withers
as Polly
Frank Pettingell
as Puffett
Joan Kemp-Welch
as Aggie Twitterton
Aubrey Mallalieu
as Rev. Simon Goodacre
James Carney
as Constable Sellon
Roy Emerton
as Noakes
Louise Hampton
as Mrs. Ruddle
