BIGGLES & CO.
Written by W.E. Johns
Illustrated by Howard Leigh, Alfred Sindall
Published by Oxford University Press; Humphrey Milford
BIGGLES & CO.
Written by W.E. Johns.
Illustrated by Howard Leigh, Alfred Sindall.
Stock no. 1324167
1938.
Hardback.
Almost very good condition.
Pyramid edition. Blue cloth with vignette of bi-plane, palm trees and pyramids to front. 6 b/w illustrations. 256 pages. Colour frontis. Spine and corners bumped. Covers marked and a little grubby. Booksellers ink address stamp to front pastedown. Prize inscription in ink to front free-endpaper. Hinge between frontis and title-page is cracked, showing webbing beneath. Foxing to textblock and to prelims. Some slight marking to title-page.
Front cover
Contents
- I want you to start an airline"
- is the request from Raymond (now Assistant Commissioner of Police at Scotland Yard). So Biggles starts an airline to transfer gold shipments, to stop a series of thefts. Using his natural cunning, Biggles manages to thwart the bad guys a few times, before the ringleader (the old friend Von Stalhein) ups the ante by kidnapping Algy and locking him in a castle in Germany. Biggles and Ginger come to the rescue, eventually, returning the team and its goods to London.
- On their return the final piece of the puzzle falls into place, when one of Biggles employers is exposed as a double-agent, giving Von Stalhein's men the tip-offs needed to capture the gold and precious stones... but there is yet another twist...