Gene Pleydon

In the novel The Pale Horse, Mark Easterbrook is at Luigi's espresso bar in Chelsea when he witnesses a fight between two girls, Lou Ellis and "Tommy" Tucker, an apparently violent fight in which Lou manages to yank out some hair from Tommy's scalp. Later when investigating Tommy's death, "Ginger" Corrigan discovers that the fight was over a man named Gene Pleydon. He was going out with Lou and then later left her to go after Tommy. Ginger described Gene as "a nasty piece of works" but didn't add much more by way of description. Luigi, the owner of the cafe did think Tommy, who was wealthy, was serious about Gene, and if she had married Gene, then some others such as her step-mother, would find themselves cut off.