
The Dead Mountaineer's Inn
One More Last Rite for the Detective Genre
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Keith Szarabajka
From the Russian masters of sci-fi comes The Dead Mountaineer's Inn, a hilarious spoof on the classic country-house murder mystery.
When Inspector Peter Glebsky arrives at a remote ski chalet on vacation, the last thing he intends to do is get involved in any police work. He's there to ski, drink brandy, and loaf around in blissful solitude. But he hadn't counted on the other vacationers, an eccentric bunch, including a famous hypnotist, a physicist with a penchant for gymnastic feats, a sulky teenager of indeterminate gender, and the mysterious Mr. and Mrs. Moses. And as the chalet fills up, strange things start happening - things that seem to indicate the presence of another, unseen guest. Is there a ghost on the premises? A prankster? Something more sinister?
When an avalanche blocks the mountain pass and traps everyone in the chalet, the corpse is finally discovered. Glebsky's vacation is over, and he's embarked on the most unusual investigation he's ever been involved with. In fact the further he looks into it, the more Glebsky realizes that the victim may not even be human.
In this late novel from the legendary Russian sci-fi duo - here in its first-ever English translation - the Strugatskys gleefully upend the plot of many an Hercule Poirot mystery - and the result is much funnier and much stranger than anything Agatha Christie ever wrote.
©1970 Arkady and Boris Strugatsky. Translation © 2015 by Josh Billings. Introduction © 2015 by Jeff VanderMeer (P)2015 Blackstone Audio, Inc.Listeners also enjoyed...




















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Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?
yes, interesting.Did the plot keep you on the edge of your seat? How?
no, but was engaging.What does Keith Szarabajka bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you just read the book?
excellent character interpretation.Did you have an extreme reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?
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it would have been a flop if narration was not excellent.fantastic narrator
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Narrator made this more interesting than it was.
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This is the most DIFFERENT Sci-fi book that I have ever read or conceived of, and I'm not sure whether I like it or not – furthermore, I can't assess whether it's any good :-(. Okay, let's just look at it from the review perspective. It certainly starts out as a normal mystery, and the sci-fi aspect really doesn't appear until near the end – well, halfway through, anyway. It may just be my belief in reliance on reality that's tripping me up, but I do enjoy sci-fi/fantasy books frequently without the need for reality or the truth of our world. Maybe the problem is the illusion of our world and reality, and I just don't deal with change of world and reality on the fly. Maybe that's an indication that I'm "close minded", but I really don't like to believe that.
For the most part, it actually was a good book, and it forced the reader to bend beliefs change hes views of the possibilities of the world.
Strangest sci-fi I've ever read
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Decent
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very long boring start
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Good narration and story. But a bit odd.
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