The Pretty Gentleman

Erotic sketches a blackmail letter a closeted aristocrat his ambitious lover and a sacrificial murder. Love betrayal deception and vengeance in Regency London. George Rowlands an aspiring young painter meets the charismatic Sir Henry Wallace who invites him to draw his sculpture collection and his handsome valet Gregorio Franchese. Patronised by Wallace to study at the Royal Academy George is befriended by the aloof John McCarther assistant to the eccentric Gothic painter Henry Fuseli. Meanwhile Lady Arabella Wallace becomes increasingly suspicious of her husband's enthusiasm for his new protégé. When a male brothel the White Swan is exposed Henry Wallace receives a letter of extortion in George's handwriting. After Gregorio Franchese is found murdered Georgeis suspected when erotic drawings of Gregorio are discovered in his possession. Will he face the gallows? Or will self-sacrifice and truth save his fate? .