BIGGLES in the Blue (First Edition)

The Biggles Air Adventure in the Caribbean

Biggles in the Blue by W. E. Johns was first published in 1953 by Brockhampton. There have been 9 subsequent editions in the English language. The events in the book take place in the early 1950s in the Caribbean.

Biggles is sent to Jamaica to recover a cache of secret papers–blueprints of German secret weapons under development at the end of World War Two. Their owner, Werner Wolff, had been living in Jamaica under an assumed name for many years. Unfortunately, Wolff had died without revealing where he hid his papers. There are few clues to go on, just a tracing of a oval shape with a little Square on it. And Biggles must move fast because his old adversary, von Stalhein, now in the employ of a secret service behind the Iron Curtain, is in Jamaica hunting for the same thing,

First Edition. pp. 192 #230923

(Top of dust jacket r.h. corner lacks segment. Name on fep, dated 1954)