Authors' novels mix with reality in 'Night Room'.

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November 17, 2004 | Copyright

Byline: Frank Wilson

``In the Night Room'' by Peter Straub; Random House ($21.95)

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Having discovered that her husband-to-be is a world-class wrong ball, Willy Patrick locks herself in her office at his New Jersey estate until morning _ he's in Europe on business _ then takes off for Manhattan. Unfortunately, she doesn't make a clean getaway. Two of her fiance's goons catch up with her in the parking lot of the bank where she has just withdrawn $100,000 in cash; she nearly runs one of them over as she speeds away. She checks into a hotel using her maiden name (Willy's a widow) and an initial.

But the goons are soon in hot pursuit. And they have help: the police. …

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