First Edition. b/w illusts pp. 189 #270824

Some problems solved by Air Detective-Inspector Bigglesworth, C.I.D., and his Air Police

(from biggles.info) This contains nine short stories. They are all Air Police stories except for the last one, which is a Second World War story. These are as follows:

SKYWAY ROBBERY (Pages 9 to 36)

Biggles helps the son of the Rajah of Malliapore recover their stolen family jewels in India.

THE CASE OF THE UNKNOWN AIRCRAFT (Pages 39 to 56)

An unidentified aircraft has crashed in the Cairngorms and is found to be carrying Uranium.

THE RENEGADE (Pages 59 to 82)

A villain is supplying arms in Malaya. Biggles parachutes in to blow up his supply dump.

BIGGLES BAITS THE TRAP (Pages 85 to 94)

Biggles pretends to steal some pearls in order to get a gang of thieves to steal them off him.

AFRICAN ASSIGNMENT (Pages 97 to 123)

A Mr. & Mrs. Steiner, under the pretext of making natural history films, are buying illicit diamonds.

ALL IN THE DAY’S WORK (Pages 127 to 135)

Biggles and Ginger recover some stolen top secret Government documents after a long chase.

THE CASE OF THE SECRET AEROFOIL (Pages 139 to 151)

What appears to be an accidental aircraft crash is actually a murder carried out by spies.

THE CASE OF THE MYSTERIOUS GUNSHOTS (Pages 155 to 173)

Someone has a novel way of poaching elephants, by using a plane to shoot them from the air.

THE HARE AND THE TORTOISE (Pages 177 to 189)

Wilkinson bets that his new pilot will shoot down more enemy planes than Biggles’ new pilot.