Murder on Mars

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

Hugh Walters's U.N.E.X.A series
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The Caves of Drach (1978) · The Last Disaster (1978) · The Blue Aura (1979) · The Dark Triangle (1979) · The Glass Men (unpublished)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)