Have His Carcase

The second Lord Peter Wimsey novel in which Harriet Vane appears is the 1932 Have His Carcase whose title is taken from an old legal writ. Harriet goes off on a hiking trip along the seashore, after being acquitted of murder charges in Strong Poison, and discovers the body of a man with his throat recently cut. She calls in Lord Peter -- played by Edward Petherbridge[?] in the movie based on the book by Dorothy L. Sayers -- to help her deal with the press as well as the police, and together they solve the crime. Meanwhile, he keeps taking every likely opportunity to ask her to marry him, and she keeps refusing, as much because she mistrusts her own feelings as because she doubts his.