War is declared, and Biggles is ready for action!September 1939. Britain has declared war on Germany. Major James Bigglesworth, known to his friends as 'Biggles', is eager to get straight into the action alongside old friends Algernon 'Algy' Lacey and 'Ginger' Hebblethwaite. They don't have to wait long.The British government has covertly acquired a small island in the Baltic, off the north coast of Germany. The island is unremarkable save for one feature: a natural sea c...

The war is over What next for Biggles?With the excitement of the war now past, Biggles and the gang cool their heels at headquarters, bored.But then former Air Commodore Raymond, newly returned to his civilian position in Scotland Yard, pays them a visit. There has been a spate of seemingly impossible heists recently, which can only have been pulled off by a gang of highly able pilots, with access to cutting-edge aircraft. Scotland Yard needs their help.Biggles ma...

Biggles turns double agent!Biggles is in London on leave from the Front when he is approached by a stranger who greets him as 'Captain Brunow'. Curious, Biggles plays along with the mistaken identity, and is quickly offered the chance to become a spy for the Germans!Reporting the encounter to Air Staff Intelligence, Biggles is encouraged to seize the opportunity and find out all he can about a German known only as El Shereef, operating somewhere in PalestineBiggle...

Biggles helps two friends search for a missing brother, shot down behind the LinesDevastating news reaches sixteen-year-old Peter 'Thirty' Fortymore at his school in England: his older brother, Nigel, is missing in action, believed dead, after being shot down over the Western Front.Thirty is adamant that his brother may still be alive, and is determined to find him. With help of his best friend, Rip, Thirty runs away from...

Biggles turns spy in his most dangerous adventure yet!Professor Max Beklinder, a British explosives expert, has reportedly been killed in a car crash in his native Lucrania, now under the control of an increasingly bellicose Germany.But when a British agent reports Beklinder has since been seen alive with the Chief of the Secret Police, the authorities need to confirm for certain whether he is alive or dead. He had been working on a powerful new weapon for Britain that ca...

Biggles searches for pirate gold!Out on a walk in London with Algy and Ginger, Biggles bumps into a young lad called Dick Denver. A chance encounter perhaps, but there isn't time for formal introductions.Dick knows the location of a secret treasure trove, hidden in an old pirate ship in the Caribbean. His father's final letter contained a map detailing how to find it, and a single gold doubloon as proof. ...

A mysterious black aeroplane and a dastardly plot.Forced down by thick fog, Biggles and Algy cut short a pleasure flight and land on a river in Norfolk to wait out the weather. Exploring the banks, they stumble across a wartime pillbox with papers written in German hidden inside! Shortly afterwards, a massive plane painted black to camouflage it against the night sky sets down on the water with a roar.Biggles investigates, boarding the craft to find it is a bomber of imme...

Biggles must thwart the schemes of an international gang of thieves!Paul Cronfelt, head of a firm of bullion brokers called Cronfelt and Carstairs, has a problem. Shipments of gold and precious stones being ferried between European capitals by aeroplane are being lost, the planes either crashing in mysterious circumstances or else landing without the valuables they set off with.The situation cannot be allowed to continue, and he needs a brave, daring pilot who can find ou...

Biggles is asked to set up a new air force!In the aftermath of the Great War, Biggles is contacted by an ambassador in London, alerting him to growing tensions between the small European nation of Maltovia and their sabre-rattling neighbour, Lovitzna. Maltovia needs help to create an air force to protect themselves, and Biggles is just the man for the job.After a menacing visit from the Lovitznian Minister in London, Biggles is convinced: he will offer Ma...

Biggles smuggles a vital cargo from right under the enemy's nose!A Chinese smuggler called Li Chi, who owes Biggles his life, has built up a secret store of rubber, a vital war material, that he would like to offer to the British war effort.It is hidden on a remote island off Malaya, currently under Japanese control, more than a thousand miles from the nearest Allied air base. And there is no runway on the islandNot doubting Biggl...

Seven missing planes and a compromised air-route Sounds like a job for Biggles!Mid-way through the Second World War, there has been suspicious activity along a vital British air corridor between the West coast of Africa and the Middle East. Aircraft have been disappearing with no explanation; urgent stores, dispatches and important officials have failed to arrive at their destinations.Something must be interfering with this vital route, and the British Government knows ju...

Biggles is on the trail of a gang of master forgersWhen forged stamps and banknotes of such high quality that even the Bank of England struggles to tell genuine from fake start appearing in circulation in Britain and across Europe, the government charges Scotland Yard with identifying their source, and fast.Former Air Commodore Raymond suspects the gang behind the forging may be using aircraft to transport their counterfeit commodities, and brings Biggles & Co. in to inve...