Ruth Rendell: A Demon in my View (USA 2000)

From the Publisher:
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.

Ruth Rendell: A Demon in my View. Vintage Books, ISBN: 0375704914 (January, 2000), 182 p., $12.95.

Ruth Rendell: A Demon in my View (UK 1994)

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Her white face, beautiful, stared blankly back at him. He fancied she had cringed, her slim body pressing further into the wall behind her. He didn't speak. He had never known how to talk to women. There was only one thing he had ever been able to do to women and advancing now, smiling, he did it.

Then, when it was all over, he straightened her against the wall so that she would be ready to die for him again. It was the best thing in his life; just knowing she was there, waiting until the next time.

But one day she wasn't waiting, wasn't there...

Ruth Rendell: A Demon in my View. Arrow, ISBN: 0099148609 (February, 1994), 224 p., £3.50.

Ruth Rendell: A Demon in my View (UK 1982)

From the Publisher:
Her white face, beautiful, stared blankly back at him. He fancied she had cringed, her slim body pressing further into the wall behind her. He didn't speak. He had never known how to talk to women. There was only one thing he had ever been able to do to women and advancing now, smiling, he did it.

Then, when it was all over, he straightened her against the wall so that she would be ready to die for him again. It was the best thing in his life; just knowing she was there, waiting until the next time.

But one day she wasn't waiting, wasn't there...

Ruth Rendell: A Demon in my View. Arrow, ISBN: 0099148609 (February, 1982), 224 p., £1.99 (?).

Ruth Rendell: A Demon in my View (USA 1981)

From the Publisher:
Her white face, beautiful, stared blankly back at him. He fancied she had cringed, her slim body pressing further into the wall behind her. He didn't speak. He had never known how to talk to women. There was only one thing he had ever been able to do to women and now, smiling, he did it. Then, when it was all over, he straightened her against the wall so that she would be ready to die for him again. It was the best thing in his life; just knowing she was there, waiting until the next time. But one day she wasn't there waiting...

Ruth Rendell: A Demon in my View. Bantam Books, ISBN: 0553148109 (July, 1981), 192 p., $2.25.