(Found) Searching for a story about someone returned from Mars

[dekket]

My father in the law was telling me about a story about a boy (or young man) who returned to Earth as the only survivor from an attempt to colonise Mars. As he was born and raised on Mars under the lower gravity, he had grown tall and gangly. Apparantly as the only heir to the scientists/colonists, he inherited all their earthly wealth and so was quite well to do. Does this ring a bell with anyone?

 

[Biskit]

Heinlein?
Stranger in a Strange Land
or maybe
Podkayne of Mars

 

[hitmouse]

Not siasl from that description.

 

[Parson]

I think it is possibly "Stranger in a Strange Land" there is enough convergence that given the time and the relating to a third party this might be the book in question.

 

[dekket]

Yes. My father in law agrees that Stranger in a Strange Land was the story he was thinking about. Thanks.