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Arthur Johnson's empty and solitary existence is suddenly threatened when a worldly young man arrives at the Trinity Road lodging house
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r him in the dark, her mind and body perfect, passive, until one day, when he goes to the cellar, and she is gone . . .
In A Demon in My View, Ruth Rendell creates a character as frightening as he is fascinating. Mild-mannered Arthur Johnson has never known how to talk to women. And his loneliness has perverted his desire for love and respect into a carefully controlled penchant for violence. One floor below him, a scholar finishing his thesis on psychopathic personalities is about to stumble—quite literally—upon one of Arthur's many secrets. Haunting and intelligent, A Demon in My View shows the startling results of this chilling alchemy of two very disparate minds—one pathological and the other obsessed with pathology.
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"A distinguished storyteller at the very height of her powers." —Sunday Express
"Ruth Rendell is the best mystery writer in the English-speaking world." —Time
"No one can take you so totally into the recesses of the human mind as does Ruth Rendell." —The Christian Science Monitor
"If there were a craft guild for writers, I'd apprentice myself to Ruth Rendell." —Sue Grafton
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