The Novel + The Stage Adaptation - A Complete Murder-Mystery Package
This combined edition delivers the complete property in one package:
- The Novel - the full Enceladus Station: Fountains murder mystery, the launch of an ongoing series.
- The Stage Adaptation - a performance-ready script with a budget-theater set plan that stages all eighteen locations on as few as three sets.
Community Theater / Low-Profit Use. Retail purchase of this Enceladus Station: Fountains screenplay permits community-theater production, staged reading, nonprofit, educational, festival, showcase, student film, or no-net-profit presentation only if not filmed and not commercially exploited. Copying or replicating is prohibited; each actor, director, producer, crew member, or participant needing a script must use an individually purchased screenplay book.
Story:
Deep beneath the frozen crust of Saturn's moon, a doctor has been murdered - and the only way out is miles of ice.
The year is 2130. Interplanetary travel is routine, and humanity lives and works across the outer solar system. But Enceladus Station is sealed beneath the ice of Saturn's most reflective moon - cut off from Earth, with nowhere to run and no one coming to help. Doctor Craig Walters has been found stabbed with a scalpel, and the case file is ninety-seven pages of nothing. So, they send Lieutenant Mark Grant.
Grant arrives a stranger, with no allies and no time. The governor wants the case closed quietly. The sheriff's reports don't add up. And the station's lead scientist, Susan McAfee, has found something in the water beneath the ice - something alive - a discovery that may be exactly what got Walters killed. The deeper Grant digs, the clearer it becomes that the danger isn't the vacuum outside the hull. It's the people sealed inside it with him. Down here, the farthest you can see is the next bend in the corridor. And the killer hasn't left.
A grounded, claustrophobic locked-room thriller, Enceladus Station: Fountains blends hard science, classic whodunit, and the cold silence of deep space. Readers who love the contained dread of The Thing, the deductive engine of Agatha Christie, and the lived-in realism of The Expanse will find a fresh mystery at the edge of the solar system - the first novel in an ongoing series.
