SERGEANT BIGGLESWORTH C.I.D.
Written by W.E. Johns
Illustrated by Leslie Stead
Published by Hodder & Stoughton
in 1946
- Categorised in:
- CHILDRENS
- BIGGLES
- BOYS
- BOYS ADVENTURE
SERGEANT BIGGLESWORTH C.I.D.
Written by W.E. Johns.
Illustrated by Leslie Stead.
Stock no. 1330727
1949.
Hardback.
Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.
Blue cloth with black titles. Colour frontis and 8 other illustrations. The first post-war Biggles story. 2nd impression. Spine bumped. Mottling to covers and a small white mark to top edge of rear cover. Tiny dent to top edge of rear cover. Date ink stamp to rear pastedown. Endpapers are partly browned. Some very slight foxing to textblock. Dustwrapper is edge worn and torn with slight loss and a little grubby to rear panel.
Front cover
Contents
- Biggles is barely back into civvies and hits the ground running in a new role with the ever-present Colonel Raymond. Assigned as the worlds first air-borne policeman. BIggles & Co. are soon hitting the skies in search of organised crime. With the war barely over the first targets are disenfranchised Germans.
- I. CRIME A LA MODE
- II. PURELY TECHNICAL
- III. THE YELLOW SWAN
- IV. PREUSS PLAYS A CARD
- V. PREUSS TRIES AGAIN
- VI. GETTING WARMER
- VII. GLOVES OFF
- VIII. BIGGLES FOLLOWS ON
- IX. GONTERMANN MAKES A PROPOSAL
- X. GINGER TAKES A WALK
- XI. BIGGLES TAKE TO WATER
- XII. BERTIE FLIES ALONE
- XIII. EVENTS AT EL ZUFRA
- XIV. BACK TO THE TRAIL
- XV. THE SANSEVIERA
- XVI. THE POISON BELT
- XVII. GONTERMANN DOES IT AGAIN
- XVIII. THE LAST LAP