Demon in My View, A

Product Description In 1976 this acclaimed novel by Ruth Rendell was the winner of the Crime Writers’ Association Gold Dagger Award.In a gloomy cellar, the figure of a palely beautiful woman makes no move when the man advances on her from the shadows, puts his hands around her neck and strangles her….Two men rent flats in the same house, but their paths rarely cross. Arthur Johnson is quiet, 50 and a bachelor. No one knows of the dark lusts that bind Arthur to the pale lady in the cellar, that compel him to kill again and again. Anthony Johnson is a young student studying psychopathic tendencies, going to lectures and writing a thesis. His lover is trying to make up her mind whether she wants to stay with her husband or leave him to be with Anthony…. Review "A distinguished storyteller at the very height of her powers." ―Sunday Express"Ruth Rendell is the best mystery writer in the English-speaking world." ―Time"No one can take you so totally into the recesses of the human mind as does Ruth Rendell." ―The Christian Science Monitor"If there were a craft guild for writers, I'd apprentice myself to Ruth Rendell." ―Sue Grafton About the Author Edgar Award–winning author Ruth Rendell (1930-2015) wrote more than seventy books and sold more than twenty million copies worldwide. A fellow of the Royal Society of Literature (London), she was the recipient of the Grand Master Award from the Mystery Writers of America and a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Crime Writers’ Association. Rendell’s award-winning novels include A Demon in My View (1976), A Dark-Adapted Eye (1987), and King Solomon’s Carpet (1991). Her popular crime stories featuring Chief Inspector Reginald Wexford were adapted into a long-running British television series (1987–2000) starring George Baker.Julian Wyatt Glover CBE is an English classical actor, with many stage, television and film roles since commencing his career in the 1950s. He is a recipient of the Laurence Olivier Award and has performed many times for the Royal Shakespeare Company.