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Copyright
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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