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A Demon in My View is a novel by British author Ruth Rendell. First published in 1976, it won the CWA Gold Dagger for Best Crime Novel of the Year, gaining Rendell the first of six Dagger awards she received during her career, more than any other writer.
- Ruth Rendell
- 1976
Jan 1, 2000 · Demon presents a researcher studying psychopathic personalities who doesn't recognize that his seemingly shy, harmless neighbor is a total nut job. Judgement finds a police investigator trying to discern why a housekeeper slaughters her employer's entire family on Valentine's Day.
- 1976
- Ruth Rendell
From the lightning in the sky. As it pass’d me flying by—. From the thunder, and the storm—. And the cloud that took the form. (When the rest of Heaven was blue) Of a demon in my view—. Source: American Poetry: The Nineteenth Century (1993) From childhood’s hour I have not been.
Jan 1, 2001 · 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.
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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.
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— Ruth Rendell, 1981 1. Arthur Johnson doesn’t look like a murderous psychopath. He is a mild-mannered man who has never known how to talk to women. Years of loneliness have warped his mind, turning his desire for a woman’s love and respect into a pathological need for carefully controlled violence.
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- Ruth Rendell
