I was just checking out the hoDS novel to see how it compares to the last two posts I've made and it's extremely close to what's in the script with the exception of one oddity:
Left alone, the man moved across the entrance hall and stood gazing into it, as if taking stock of all its furnishings. After standing there a moment he turned and went to the door to the organ room. He entered it and crossed to the organ, touching it as if it were familiar and had memories for him. He lingered in the organ room no longer than he had in the drawing room but moved on in the silence of the old house like a restless phantom.
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Hmmm - we know that Scene 83 exists in the script, but how could Barnabas in the novel have "lingered in the organ room no longer than he had in the drawing room" when there's no mention in the novel whatsoever of him going anywhere near the drawing room prior to going to the organ room?
Actually, if it wasn't for that reference to the drawing room being in the novel, things in the novel would play close to the way they do in the film. But because the novel was written without access to the film, there's no way Dan "Marilyn" Ross would have known that, so the omission of any prior mention of the drawing room comes off as somewhat of a goof more than anything else. But then, what would any sort of DS material be without at least one goof?