Murder on Mars is a juvenile science fiction novel, the sixteenth in Hugh Walters' Chris Godfrey of U.N.E.X.A.

[1] It was the second in the series to focus on Tony Hale's detective work rather than Chris Godfrey.

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.

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