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Icy Moon - Murder in the Astronomy Department
Contributor(s): Barker, Colin (Author)
ISBN: 1494920522     ISBN-13: 9781494920524
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
OUR PRICE:   $12.30  
Product Type: Paperback
Published: January 2014
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- Fiction | Mystery & Detective - General
Physical Information: 0.62" H x 5.51" W x 8.5" (0.76 lbs) 296 pages
 
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Nick, an astronomy graduate student, dies in a laboratory fire in what is later shown to be murder. He had stumbled on alien signal coming from Europa as a series of on-off methane pulses that formed a digital signal. Because of his stormy relationship with his arrogant professor, Nick had not acknowledged that there were previous signals he'd recorded, but the geology professor Candrew Nor is able to get a copy of this early part of the message, although he can't at first decode the pages of arcane numbers. Candrew's search for Nick's murderer is complicated by the international importance of message, and by the arrival on campus of an English astronomer (who is later abducted), a visiting pastor Rhodes (from the HighRhode to Heaven), Nick's wife (attacked in her house), and a graduate student from Indian (who has sophisticated monitoring equipment). Candrew himself is attacked at his office by an unknown foreigner. It takes detailed analysis of debris from the burnt lab to finally tie the murderer to the crime.