She waits for him in the dark her mind and body perfect passive until oneday when he goes to the cellar and she is gone . . .In A Demon in My View Ruth Rendell ... » 

She waits for him in the dark her mind and body perfect passive until oneday 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 isfascinating. Mildmannered Arthur Johnson has never known how to talk to women.And his loneliness has perverted his desire for love and respect into acarefully controlled penchant for violence. One floor below him a scholarfinishing his thesis on psychopathic personalities is about to stumblequiteliterallyupon one of Arthurs many secrets. Haunting and intelligent A Demonin My View shows the startling results of this chilling alchemy of two verydisparate mindsone pathological and the other obsessed with pathology. «