She is the recipient of several extremely nasty poison pen letters which almost drive her to suicide.
Attractive, sincere, and bookish, she is also sensitive. Helen is a new research fellow at Shrewsbury College. The Dean never wavers in her support of Harriet during her murder trial and the two remain on good terms, despite Harriet's initial trepidation about going back to the college. Martin is loyal to the college and the university, and wants to bring in only those whom she feels have the same intention. Martin is the Dean of Shrewsbury College and the person who asks for Harriet's help in solving the crimes of vandalism and sending poison pen letters. Wimsey is also the protagonist of a series of novels in which his and Harriet's roles are reversed and in which she is called upon to help him, rather than the other way around. This is invaluable to Harriet in her search for the sender of the poison pen letters. Wimsey is a very intelligent man who is able to investigate in a logical and effective way. Wimsey is deeply in love with Harriet and has been for some considerable time but his affections have not generally been reciprocated because his intensity of feeling and the strength of his declarations scare her. Wimsey is the archetypal British aristocrat who is bored and looking for something to do Wimsey is an amateur detective of some considerable ability and it is in this capacity that Harriet Vane calls for his help during the novel. The novel covers a pivotal time in Harriet's life as she also realizes that she has a tendency to hide in her writing and in academia in general, rather than facing difficult realities in her life. The experiences that she goes through in this novel really help her to be introspective and realize that she does love Wimsey, and she is finally able to both accept his love and offer him hers.
Much of her confusion comes from her own inability to decide how she feels about love in general and being in love with Wimsey in particular. Harriet has a relationship of sorts with amateur detective Lord Peter Wimsey, about whom she has conflicting and very confusing feelings. She is a mystery writer and a graduate of Shrewsbury College, Oxford, a period in her life about which she has decidedly mixed feelings she loved the student experience and the solace that she finds in academia and research, but she also went through a terrible ordeal there, and was forced to stand trial for murder.
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