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Mix Cellini is old lady Miss Chawcer's tenant. He lives in the top floor flat of her home, Blaise House, A huge old Victorian villa. The building lies untouched in a forgotten corner of notting Hill, an island of decaying dignity in a sea mediocrity. But Mix is no ordinary tenant, he harbours secret obsession's with prolific 1950s notting hill serial killer John Reginald Christie and local celebrity model Nerrisa Nash. As Mix's obsessive investigation into Christies life contues he discovers a dark secret from miss Chawcer past. Could Christie be connected to this old decaying victorian villa Blaise House? As ghostly events start to unfold, Mix's obsession with Nerrisa Nash deepens. Now Mix begins to wonder what Christie would have done to win Nerrisas affections. The story concludes with a unexpected and darkly murderous outcome.
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Increasingly losing touch with reality Mix continues to obsess about Nerissa,telling people they are a couple as Danila's disappearance is reported on the news. Gwendolen leaves hospital and is driven home by her friend Olive's niece - Nerissa,who is shocked to meet Mix on his home ground. Gwendolen detects that he was digging the garden and threatens to call the police,so he smothers her in her sleep and tells her friends she has gone visiting in Cambridge. He forces his way into Nerissa's house but is thrown out by her boyfriend Darel. By this time Gwendolen's friends have alerted the law and Mix is arrested but his room holds one last surprise and a revelation from Gwendolen's past is made known.
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