Affairs of a Gentleman Reviews

Sensational-fiction-author Lukas is found dead at his desk, a letter from him stating that no one is to blame for his demise, but police feel differently and begin investigating his ex-flames, all of whom Lukas jocularly scandalized in his books. Flashbacks show a party arranged by his publisher, Carle, which takes place the night before and which is attended by the ex-girlfriends. In flashbacks, we see Lukas entertain several women that night before going to his study where he tells his valet, Kinnell, he intends to commit suicide--the world is too much with him--and the valet, it is revealed in the last scenes, suggests that Lukas leave a note so no one will be blamed for his death. He writes the note, then fires a shot into the floor which brings the valet on the run. Finding his employer still alive, he shoots him over an old grievance, thinking his tracks covered, but he does not reckon with that extra bullet in the floor which leads to his arrest. An above-average programmer which was certainly based upon the unsolved murder of film director William Desmond Taylor in 1922.