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Author:
Strugatskii, Arkadiĭ, 1925-1991, author.
Title:
The Dead Mountaineer's Inn : (one more last rite for the detective genre) / Arkady and Boris Strugatsky ; translated by Josh Billings ; introduction by Jeff Vandermeer.
Publisher:
Melville House Publishing,
Copyright Date:
2015
Description:
xiii, 238 pages ; 21 cm.
Subject:
Police--Fiction.
Ski resorts--Fiction.
Murder--Investigation--Fiction.
Other Authors:
Strugat͡skiĭ, Boris, 1933-2012, author.
Billings, Josh, 1980- translator.
VanderMeer, Jeff, writer of introduction.
Summary:
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.
ISBN:
161219432X (pbk.)
9781612194325 (pbk.)
OCLC:
(OCoLC)899113968
LCCN:
2014045420
Locations:
USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)
PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)
DAPG173 -- Mason City Public Library (Mason City)
GEPG771 -- West Des Moines Public Library (West Des Moines)

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