The Dead Mountaineer's Inn : (one more last rite for the detective genre)

Strugat͡skiĭ, Arkadiĭ 1925-1991 (author.). Strugat͡skiĭ, Boris, 1933-2012 (author.). Billings, Josh, 1980- (translator.). VanderMeer, Jeff, (writer of introduction.).

Record details

ISBN: 9781612194332
ISBN: 161219432X
ISBN: 9781612194325
Physical Description: print
xiii, 238 pages ; 21 cm.
Publisher: Brooklyn ; London : Melville House Publishing, [2015]

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Summary, etc.:

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.