The BBC has done a good job of giving us STRONG POISON (about which film these remarks are mainly directed), HAVE HIS CARCASE, and GAUDY NIGHT, with a "Harriet Vane" acted by a lady who would seem to have been born for the part. It may be so, but luckily for us, Harriet Walter looks nothing like Dorothy. Sayers fell in love with "Lord Peter" and that "Harriet Vane" is a reflection of herself. Some commentators have said that Dorothy L. Harriet Walter reflects all three throughout the series. He says, repeatedly, that he admires her character and intelligence, even if she isn't "beautiful".
Would any normal suitor continue in the face of this "battlement"? Well, Lord Peter is not exactly normal. That he would be interested in the case, was his nature as Dorothy has presented him to us, but Harriet in the dock and afterward was such a "distant" woman to Peter's adoring advances. Sayers could explain that, and she tries throughout all three stories in this series. Either from the novel or this film you might come away wondering why Lord Peter fell in love with Harriet Vane at first sight of her in the dock at the Old Bailey.
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