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

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THE DEAD MOUNTAINEER’S INN

Originally published under the title Otel’ “U Pogibshyego Al’pinista”

Copyright © 1970 by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky

Translation copyright © 2015 by Josh Billings

Introduction copyright © 2015 by Jeff VanderMeer

First Melville House printing: March 2015

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Strugatskii, Arkadii, 1925–1991, author.

[Otel’ “U pogibshego al’pinista”. English]

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.

pages; cm

ISBN 978-1-61219-432-5 (pbk.)

ISBN 978-1-61219-433-2 (ebook)

I. Strugatskii, Boris, 1933–2012, author. II. Billings, Josh, 1980– translator. III. VanderMeer, Jeff, writer of introduction. IV. Title.

PG3476.S78835O8413 2015

891.73’44–dc23

2014045420

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