The Dead Mountaineer's Inn
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When the Strugatsky brothers got tired of having their science fiction books constantly pushed around and censored by the Soviet government, they decided to take a break and write a mystery novel for a change.
Inspector Peter Glebsky is on vacation, so he heads up to a remote ski chalet, intending to ski and drink a lot and generally lounge about in the peace and quiet. At the chalet, he meets a bizarre conglomeration of people--a famous magician and his nephew (niece?), a physicist, a possible thug, a rich man and his socialite wife among them. Plus maybe the ghost of the dead mountaineer, who steals things. An avalanche cuts them all off and a Norwegian stranger is found dead, so Glebsky plans to figure this out--despite being the kind of police inspector who finds embezzlers, not murderers, and possibly not a policeman at all. And the Strugatskys really can't resist throwing a little science-fiction weirdness in among all the strange antics they've already got going on.
As always with those two guys, it's a strange, surreal, and entertaining tale.
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