There was an obituary in the English press about an aristocratic Polish refugee from the Nazis, regarded as a bon vivant and a raconteur, which caught Stalker’s eye.
Vincent Poklewski Koziell who arrived in Britain in 1939, a refugee from the Nazi regime, lead a varied and interesting life, which he summed up in a book of reminiscences called The Ape Has Stabbed Me, published in 2014.
He was variously a vacuum cleaner salesman in south London, a butcher in the Bronx, an advertising exec, a nightclub manager in Mayfair - he then moved to Ireland and lived in Dublin,and then Fermanagh in Crom Castle, and then he apparently ran an unsuccessful mushroom growing business, before finding his niche as a company director.
