A Demon in My View Author:Ruth Rendell 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 ... more »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.« less