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The Dead Mountaineer’s Inn
Arkady Strugatsky, Boris Strugatsky
  • Published: 4 March 2027
  • ISBN: 9781837315406
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 256

The Dead Mountaineer’s Inn

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A genre-bending and wildly entertaining riff on the classic locked room murder mystery, from Soviet Russia's greatest science fiction writers

Inspector Peter Glebsky, on holiday at a remote ski chalet, is peeved to find himself called upon to solve a murder. As an avalanche cuts off the eccentric cast of guests from civilization, Glebsky begins to question everything – including whether the dead body on his hands is even human…
  • Published: 4 March 2027
  • ISBN: 9781837315406
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 256
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About the authors

Arkady Strugatsky

Arkady Strugatsky (1925 - 1991) and Boris Strugatsky (1933 - 2012) are Russia's most acclaimed and popular science-fiction writers. Their unique style - at once hilarious and pitch black - encompassed a remarkable variety of different genres: from space opera to alien invasion, from locked-room mystery to dystopian apocalypse. While their initial output was uncritical of Soviet life, over time their work became much more subversive - science fiction being the perfect vehicle to hide their critiques from censors. In 1981 they shared the Aelita Award, Russia's most prestigious science-fiction prize.
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Boris Strugatsky

Arkady Strugatsky (1925 - 1991) and Boris Strugatsky (1933 - 2012) are Russia's most acclaimed and popular science-fiction writers. Their unique style - at once hilarious and pitch black - encompassed a remarkable variety of different genres: from space opera to alien invasion, from locked-room mystery to dystopian apocalypse. While their initial output was uncritical of Soviet life, over time their work became much more subversive - science fiction being the perfect vehicle to hide their critiques from censors. In 1981 they shared the Aelita Award, Russia's most prestigious science-fiction prize.
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Praise for The Dead Mountaineer’s Inn

Delicious… There’s enough dry humour to spark kindling… Delightful and melancholy by turns, and so satisfying to read

New York Times Book Review

One can sense the joy of invention on every page. 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 wit

Los Angeles Review of Books

A locked room mystery that wasn’t. A whodunit that wasn’t … Complex and kinetic and fun

Jeff Vandermeer