Dead Mountaineer's Hotel

Dead Mountaineer's Inn
2015 Melville House Neversink Library English translation
AuthorBoris and Arkady Strugatsky
LanguageRussian
GenreScience Fiction
Publication placeSoviet Union

The Dead Mountaineer's Hotel (Russian: Отель «У Погибшего Альпиниста») is a 1970 Soviet science fiction novel written by brothers Arkady and Boris Strugatsky. In 2015, Melville House published an English translation by Josh Billings as part of their Neversink Library collection. The novel heavily incorporates elements of detective fiction as it follows Inspector Peter Glebsky as he attempts to solve a classic locked-room mystery. However, the novel subverts common mystery novel tropes, and flouts the second of Ronald Knox's "Ten Commandments" of the detective genre: "All supernatural or preternatural agencies are ruled out as a matter of course."

The novel has been adapted for the screen in 1979 and as a video game in 2007. It was translated into a number of languages. The English translation as The Dead Mountaneer's Inn by Josh Billings was published in 2015.