A demon in my view / Ruth Rendell.
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TextSeries: Vintage crime/Black LizardPublication details: New York : Vintage Books, 2000.Edition: 1st Vintage books edDescription: 182 p. ; 21 cmISBN: - 0375704914
- 9780375704918
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Main Library | Mystery | Rendell Rut | Available | 33111006645085 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
She waits for 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.
The loneliness of Arthur Johnson "has perverted his desire for love and respect into a carefully controlled penchant for violence," and now, "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."--Cover.