The Dead Mountaineer's Inn : (one more last rite for the detective genre)
Arkadiĭ Strugat︠s︡kiĭ (Author), Boris Strugat︠s︡kiĭ (Author), Josh Billings (Translator), Jeff VanderMeer (Writer of introduction)
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
Print Book, English, 2015
Melville House Publishing, Brooklyn, 2015