A review by markhodderauthor
The Dead Mountaineer's Inn by Arkady Strugatsky, Boris Strugatsky

Did not finish book. Stopped at 63%.

Imagine Agatha Christie took a double handful of drugs before settling down to write a murder mystery. Imagine she occasionally thought a touch of SF might add flavour to the brew. Or perhaps she should make it a ghost story? Imagine she occasionally drifted into a drug-addled daze and when she came out of it couldn’t recall the plot but carried on writing it anyway. That, basically, is what you have here. Apparently it is “delightful and humorous.” Those parts escaped me. “Engaging?” Nope. The only part that I thoroughly enjoyed was giving up on it.