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A Demon in my View is a novel by British writer 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 during her career, more than any other writer.
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- Her white face, beautiful, unmarked by any flaw of skin or feature, stared blankly back at him. He fancied that she had cringed, her slim body pressing further into the wall behind her He didn't speak. He had never known how to talk to women. There was only one thing he had ever been able to do to women and, advancing now, smiling, he did it. Then, when it was all over, he straightened her against the wall so that she would be ready to die for him again. It was the best thing in his life, just knowing she was there, waiting until the next time...But one day she wasn't there waiting...
