Mollie Ryder is blackmailed into running off with Maurice Windermere for a romantic tryst. When Windermere's body is found in a trunk, Mollie's husband, John, is targeted by Scotland yard as the prime suspect. Enter famed sleuth. Lord Peter Wimsey, who insists on John's innocence. Using John as bait, Wimsey hatches a brilliant scheme to draw the real killer out into the open.
Lord Peter Wimsey, who solves crimes for his own amusement, was the subject of a popular series of books in Great Britain, written by Dorothy L. Sayers, who provided the screenplay for The Silent Passenger. Tall suave leading man John Loder is best remembered for The Private Life Of Henry VIII (1933), How Green Was My Valley (1941) and Now Voyager (1942).