The Dead Mountaineer's Inn: (One More Last Rite for the Detective Genre)

When Inspector Peter Glebsky arrives at a remote ski chalet, he intends to ski, drink brandy, and loaf around in blissful solitude. But the chalet’s other vacationers—a famous hypnotist, a physicist with a penchant for gymnastic feats, and a large handful of others—are a nuisance, and so is the avalanche that soon cuts the inn off from civilization. And then there’s the dead body, which may not even be human… In this genre-bending novel, the Strugatskys gleefully upend the plot of many a Hercule Poirot mystery, and the result is much funnier, and much stranger, than anything ever written by Agatha Christie. Review “If Russian sci-fi can be said to have a soul, it resides with the Brothers Strugatsky… Delightful, and a must-read for a new generation of sci-fi fans everywhere.” —NPR “This is the Strugatskys at their best, at once silly and dead serious… It’s a ripping good yarn, which translator Josh Billings has rendered with great energy and ...

Author: Strugatsky Arkady, Strugatsky Boris, VanderMeer Jeff

ISBN: 9781612194325

Year of publication: 2015

Translator: Billings Josh

Genre: Science fiction, Detective fiction, Humorous fiction, Satire

Number of pages: 225

Reading time: 3 h. 45 min.

Formats: FB2, EPUB, PDF

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