- Murder on Mars
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Murder on Mars Author(s) Hugh Walters Cover artist David Knight Country United Kingdom Language English Series Chris Godfrey of U.N.E.X.A Genre(s) Science fiction novel Publisher Faber Publication date 1975 Media type Print (Hardback) Pages 131 ISBN 0571107176 OCLC Number 3065278 Dewey Decimal 823/.9/1J Preceded by Tony Hale, Space Detective Followed by The Caves of Drach Murder on Mars is a juvenile science fiction novel, the sixteenth in Hugh Walters' Chris Godfrey of U.N.E.X.A. series. It was published in the UK by Faber in 1975. The second in the series to switch to detective work rather than space exploration.
Plot summary
On a crater on Mars an engineer from Mars Base has been found dead, his spacesuit slashed. Despite having a large number of suspects to interview, Morrey Kant, Serge Smyslov and Tony Hale's questioning flushes out a prime suspect. But Tony doesn't believe they have the right man and hatches a dangerous plan to find the real killer.
External links
U.N.E.X.A. series Blast Off at Woomera (1957) · The Domes of Pico (1958) · Operation Columbus (1959) · Moon Base One (1960) · Expedition Venus (1962) · Destination Mars (1963) · Terror by Satellite (1964) · Journey to Jupiter (1965) · Mission to Mercury (1965) · Spaceship to Saturn (1967) · The Mohole Mystery (1968) · Nearly Neptune (1968) · First Contact? (1971) · Passage to Pluto (1973) · Tony Hale, Space Detective (1973) · Murder on Mars (1975) · The Caves of Drach (1978) · The Last Disaster (1978) · The Blue Aura (1979) · The Dark Triangle (1979) · The Glass Men (unpublished)Boy Astronaut Boy Astronaut (1977) · First Family on the Moon (1979) · School on the Moon (1981)Categories:- 1975 novels
- Children's science fiction novels
- 1970s science fiction novels
- Mars in fiction
- Works by Hugh Walters
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