title: A Room To Die In
author:  Ellery Queen 
description: Pocket Books #50492, 1965. Stated First Printing in Near fine condition. It has a one centimeter tear at the upper right edge of the rear wrapper. Bump at the base of the spine.
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  # CHAPTER 19
  
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  Beyond the corridor connecting Pasiphae's apartment with Minos', the living
  quarters of the palace were a shambles. Ariadne was aware that she should be
  sunk in a heap, screaming incoherently. Indeed, she was aware of a place deep
  inside her that was knotted tight around that screaming, that terror and
  horror, but for this moment she was able to command herselfand more than
  that, she could force closed her heartflower and seal that part of her mind
  that Called Dionysus.
  
  Bodies littered the floors of the two chambers she could see and the corridor
  was full of splinters from the burst bars of the door. King Minos had
  disappeared as soon as they entered the Minotaur's corridor and he saw the
  strewn bodies, but Ariadne never thought he had run off in fear. She was
  afraid he had gone to summon an armed troop.
  
  She swallowed hard as the screaming rose, threatening to force its way up her
  throat. Would the attack ro