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A Demon in My View

By: Ruth Rendell
Narrated by: Julian Glover
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In a gloomy cellar, the figure of a beautiful, pale woman makes no move when the man advances on her from the shadows, puts his hands around her neck and strangles her. Arthur Johnson is a mild-mannered, shy man who has never known how to talk to women. His resulting loneliness has twisted his yearning for love and respect into a carefully constructed predilection for violence and control. On the floor below him, Anthony Johnson, a scholar studying psychopathic personalities is about to stumble - quite literally - upon one of Arthur's many secrets.

©1976 Ruth Rendell (P)2014 Audible, Inc. Mystery Suspense Thriller & Suspense Fiction Exciting Scary

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  • Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger Award, 1976
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This story is set in a large multistorey house divided into rooms and flats.
Many and various characters reside here, including, obviously, this being Rendell, a murderous nutter on the top floor.
This ensemble of characters is a pleasant backdrop to the two main stories - a difficult love affair, and our psychopath. Enjoyable.

Enjoyable

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the terrible foreign accents used by the narrator spoilt this story. not one of Rendell's best.

awful foreign accents.

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I really enjoy Ruth Rendell stories both with and without Insp. Wexford. I could see the characters, hear them, know how they felt. Her descriptions of her darker characters never fail to draw us into their macabre worlds. This story doesn’t disappoint.

Excellent story. Great twist.

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I really enjoyed this story. As always with Ruth Rendell, I like getting to know the characters who are always very intriguing. This was a particularly good listen, nicely read by Julian Glover (accents aside which I found a little strange!) What a vile character Arthur Johnson is!!

Great listen

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as always a good story from Ruth Rendell, the narrator really should stay away from West Indian accents though.

shame about the narrator.

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One of the best stories I’ve listened to on Audible. It was absolutely amazing and I loved it. Even though I guessed the end!!

Totally gripping and brilliant

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Continuing to work through the non-Wexford novels, this was a decent listen to pass the time - though very dated with weak pathetic female characters. Interesting to look back though on how people relied on the post for communication - looking forward each day to the postman arriving and having one telephone (a pay-phone) shared between all the flats, Dreadful attempt at a female Jamaican accent is why I gave the narration 2 stars in what would otherwise have been a decent performance.
A bit uncomfortable at times with what are now racist terms, but were acceptable and commonplace at the time.

Dated but decent

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Another Ruth Rendell with disparate characters all interlinked. I guessed some of the plot but it didn't disappoint. The narration was first class.

Very good.

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I have just read some reviews which complain that this story is “racist”. How odd! I don’t think so in the least. The author uses the word’coloured’ which was normal and polite before it became de rigeur to say ‘black’ instead. Ruth Rendell wasn’t remotely racist, Her warmly-described, positive black characters appear in this story and many others.

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struggled to finish, long and drawn out not much plot etc. narration was good but overall I have read better by Ruth.

drawn out

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