A Demon in My View (In the USA)

Rendell, Ruth

ISBN 10: 0385121105 / ISBN 13: 9780385121101

Published by Doubleday Books, 1977

About this Item

8vo. - over 7¾ in. - 9¾ in. Hardcover with dust jacket, stated 1976 First US Edition. Signed by author on the title page. Exlibrary copy with marks and stamps to endpapers. Mild lean to book when flat, binding remains solid, foxing to page edges with stamp to upper edges, interior text clean. Dust jacket lightly worn along edges, mild wear to rear cover, front and spine clean, no tears, not price-clipped. Poor copy in Very Good dust jacket.

Seller Inventory # 652567

Bibliographic Details

• Title: A Demon in My View (In the USA)
• Publisher: Doubleday Books
• Publication Date: 1977
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0385121105
• ISBN 13: 9780385121101
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Poor
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Mysteries & Thrillers

About this title

Synopsis

Arthur Johnson's empty and solitary existence is suddenly threatened when a worldly young man arrives at the Trinity Road lodging house

From the Inside Flap

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.