Author: Ruth Rendell
Year: 1976
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Mystery, Suspense, Award winners
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9780754086444
9780375704918
0754086445
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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
, 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,
shows the startling results of this chilling alchemy of two very disparate minds - one pathological and the other obsessed with pathology.
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