Murder on Mars

Murder on Mars
First edition
Author	Hugh Walters
Cover artist	David Knight
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English
Series	Chris Godfrey of U.N.E.X.A
Genre	Science fiction novel
Publisher	Faber
Publication date	1975
Media type	Print (Hardback)
Pages	131
ISBN	0-571-10717-6
OCLC	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. It was the second in the series to switch to detective work rather than space exploration.

Plot summary

In 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 does not believe they have the right man and hatches a dangerous plan to find the real killer.

External links

Murder on Mars page

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 (1969) 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(1975) The Caves of Drach (1978) The Last Disaster (1978) The Blue Aura (1979) The Dark Triangle (1979) The Glass Men (unpublished)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)

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