The Dead Mountaineer's Inn
Subtitle: (one more last rite for the detective genre)
By: Arkady and Boris Strugatsky ; translated by Josh Billings ; introduction by Jeff Vandermeer
Contributors: Strugat︠s︡kiĭ, Boris, 1933-2012, author; Billings, Josh, 1980- translator; VanderMeer, Jeff, writer of introduction
Publisher: Melville House Publishing
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 238
ISBN-13: 9781612194325
Subjects: Murder; Police; Investigation; Ski resorts; Fiction
Work titles: Otelʹ "U pogibshego alʹpinista"
Description: Policeman Peter Glebsky, heads on holiday to the Dead Mountaineer's Inn, a ski resort hotel in a small resort in a secluded valley in the Alps. On his arrival he meets the other guests: Mr. Moses, a rich old man with highly eccentric manners and his stunningly beautiful wife; Mr. du Barnstocre, an illusionist who is accompanied by Brun, his niece; Mr. Simonet, an obsessive physicist; Mr. Hinckus, a custodial attorney; and Olaf Andvarafors. Then an avalanche blocks them in and a dead body is discovered and it is up to Peter to find out who did it.