Biggles Books in Order

During the First World War, young pilot Biggles flies a Sopwith Camel with 266 Squadron in France. These stories follow his encounters with enemy aircraft, dangerous missions and the pressures of surviving aerial combat.

Biggles, Algy and mechanic Smyth accompany Uncle Dickpa to South America in search of Inca treasure. Their expedition aboard the Condor takes them into unfamiliar jungle country, where finding the treasure brings danger as well as discovery.

After the First World War, Biggles, Algy and mechanic Smyth travel the world in a Vickers Vandal flying boat. Their search for work leads to unexpected adventures as commercial flying takes them into unfamiliar territory.

Biggles and Algy serve with 266 Squadron during the closing years of the First World War. These linked flying stories follow their dangerous sorties over the French front, where enemy fighters threaten every return journey.

A forced landing near the Norfolk coast leads Biggles and Algy into a plot involving a Russian invasion. With young Ginger joining their adventures, they must investigate the threat and escape the dangers their discovery brings.

Mistaken for a German pilot, Biggles is recruited into enemy intelligence and sent to Palestine. British officers encourage him to maintain the deception, but working alongside the suspicious von Stalhein makes his undercover assignment increasingly dangerous.

A radio appeal draws Biggles and his friends into Uncle Dickpa's latest expedition. A journey to Tibet promises discoveries, but attacks before they leave England suggest that someone is determined to stop the explorers.

Serving with 266 Squadron in France, Biggles faces enemy pilots and the daily hazards of flying above the trenches. These wartime stories mix dangerous missions with incidents of squadron life, from propaganda battles to Christmas preparations.

Seventeen-year-old Biggles enters flying training before being sent to France with little experience. Combat over the Western Front forces him to learn quickly, as enemy fighters expose the gap between training exercises and surviving a war.

Biggles starts an air freight business carrying valuables between Britain and France. When aircraft disappear and pilots are killed, the venture becomes an investigation into an organized threat to both his company and his friends.

A year after Harry Marton's aircraft disappears on a flight to the Cape, his father asks Biggles to investigate. Biggles, Algy and Ginger head into Africa to search the route between Malakal and Juba.

Supply ships vanish in the Indian Ocean, leaving distress messages with the same peculiar spelling mistake. Biggles investigates the connection and receives a temporary RAF commission to lead an expedition against the hidden threat.

Biggles notices that distress messages from vanished supply ships share an unusual spelling error. His investigation leads to a secret assignment in the Indian Ocean, where he must discover who is attacking Britain's shipping.

A young man's inherited papers point to a lost Caribbean treasure and a valuable gold doubloon. Biggles and his friends investigate the clue, but other treasure hunters are determined to reach the prize first.

While flying toward South Africa, Biggles, Algy and Ginger become involved with a scientist searching for a lost Egyptian oasis. A journey into the desert turns dangerous when their means of escape is threatened.

Biggles and his companions agree to help Maltovia build an air force as its hostile neighbor threatens war. Their arrival brings immediate trouble, including a hangar fire and opposition that endangers the country's defenses.

Determined to find his missing brother Nigel, sixteen-year-old Peter and his friend Rip steal an aircraft and fly to France. Their unauthorized arrival at 266 Squadron brings them to Biggles during the First World War.

Biggles travels to Canada to help his old friend Wilks, whose Arctic Airways business is in trouble. When Wilks disappears and Biggles is arrested, the visit becomes a struggle to uncover what has happened.

After their ship is attacked near Barcelona, Biggles, Algy and Ginger become caught up in the Spanish Civil War. An encounter involving a coded message draws them into espionage while danger threatens from several directions.

At the outbreak of the Second World War, Biggles operates from a concealed Baltic island base. His raids against Germany depend on keeping its location secret while enemy intelligence searches for the British aircraft.

An old flying friend asks Biggles to help finance a search for pearls in the South Pacific. Biggles, Algy and Ginger join the expedition, taking their aircraft into remote island waters in pursuit of the pearl beds.

Working undercover in Norway, Biggles is trapped by the German invasion. Assuming a Norwegian identity and entering the Luftwaffe, he must gather intelligence without exposing himself while enemy officers give him increasingly dangerous assignments.

During the Finnish-Soviet Winter War, Biggles and his companions encounter a Polish scientist whose research has been hidden near a crash site. Recovering it becomes urgent when von Stalhein takes an interest in the secret.

Biggles takes command of 666 Squadron during the Second World War and must turn a collection of unconventional pilots into a fighting unit. Their different personalities complicate the task of preparing for dangerous aerial missions.

Asked to investigate trouble in British Honduras, Biggles learns of disrupted exports, missing Americans and a mysterious figure called the King of the Forest. His party travels into the jungle to discover what connects the disturbances.

British aircraft are disappearing along a vital wartime route between West Africa and the Middle East. Biggles and his squadron head into the desert to discover the cause and protect the threatened air connection.

Ginger entertains his squadron with stories of charter flights made with Biggles and Algy for eccentric scientist Dr. Augustus Duck. Their worldwide investigations lead to strange creatures and unexplained phenomena, with danger accompanying the doctor's scientific curiosity.

Biggles disappears after a solo rescue mission in Monaco, and reports suggest he has been shot. Algy, Ginger, and Bertie parachute into southern France to search for their friend, uncertain whether they are seeking a survivor or a body.

Biggles establishes a secret airfield in Borneo to raid Japanese forces during the Pacific war. When a snake aboard an aircraft forces Algy and Ginger down and into enemy hands, he must arrange their rescue.

Aircraft carrying vital war supplies between Calcutta and China keep vanishing without explanation. Biggles and his squadron are sent to India to investigate, knowing that flying the same route may expose them to whatever is destroying the planes.

Li Chi offers Britain a hidden supply of rubber stored on an island under Japanese control. Biggles must fly it to India despite the lack of a runway and the enormous distance from the nearest Allied air base.

With the war over, Raymond recruits Biggles and his friends for a new police unit tackling criminals who use aircraft. Their first urgent assignment involves jewel robberies, putting their flying skills to work against a different kind of enemy.

A wave of counterfeit stamps and currency brings Biggles onto the trail of an airline offering luxurious hunting holidays. Investigating its remote African lodge means confronting criminals who know about his assignment and try to buy him off.

The new Air Police must locate a German submarine whose crew refuses to accept the war's end. Biggles and his friends pursue the rogue vessel near remote Kerguelen, where isolation makes its attacks especially dangerous.

News of the lost schooner Starry Crown sends Biggles and his friends to Antarctica in search of Australian gold. They hope to reach the icebound ship before seal poachers, but the frozen wilderness offers little help if things go wrong.

A dying man's message reveals that Angus Mackail is trapped in a South American settlement advertised as profitable farmland. Biggles and his friends fly to Paradise Valley to rescue the investors, who have instead become prisoners forced to work.

The kidnapping of specialist scientists sends Biggles and his team to a remote part of China. With help from a Chinese-speaking officer, they must locate the prisoners and organize an escape from a base guarded by dangerous opponents.

Biggles, Ginger, and Bertie are sent to destroy a dangerous narcotic growing in the Arabian desert. Finding the crop already burned offers little reassurance when they learn someone has taken seeds, forcing them to search for a new source.

Fourteen-year-old Biggles enters Malton Hall and must learn to navigate school life, rivalries, and unfair treatment. His adventures range beyond the classroom, where encounters with poachers test the courage and judgment that will later define him as a pilot.

French policeman Marcel Brissac asks Biggles to trace a mysterious aircraft linked to stolen Australian gold. Tiny clues lead the team toward Monte Carlo and a criminal organization, while Bertie's undercover work puts him in particular danger.

Seven short cases follow Biggles's work with the postwar Air Police. Smuggling, stolen aircraft, and a threat to a visiting sultan require the team to combine aviation experience with detective work against criminals operating above ordinary police reach.

Valuable breeding bulls disappear from farms around England, and Inspector Gaskin suspects aircraft may be involved. Biggles takes on the unusual thefts with his team, finding that Bertie's experience of cattle breeding may help unravel the mystery.

This collection brings together nine adventures, mostly involving Biggles's Air Police work. Recovering stolen jewels, investigating an unidentified aircraft carrying uranium, and confronting gunrunners test his team's resourcefulness, while a final wartime story returns to military flying.

Bandits calling their leader the Black Elephant raid farms and steal cattle across eastern Africa. Biggles and the Air Police join the hunt, but the gang's organization and enormous operating area make finding its leader a difficult undertaking.

Biggles goes to Jamaica to recover German secret-weapons plans hidden by a man who has died without revealing their location. With only a puzzling sketch to guide him, he must find the papers before hostile interests reach them.

Biggles and his team attempt to rescue missionaries sheltering at a remote oasis in the Gobi Desert after fleeing persecution in China. Reaching the refugees and bringing them out requires a mission through isolated and difficult terrain.

Thirteen stories combine Biggles's postwar detective assignments with his earlier Royal Flying Corps adventures. Treasure hunts, suspected smugglers, and dangerous flying jobs sit alongside wartime missions, showing how the same pilot tackles very different threats.

Eleven short adventures take Biggles from a pirate's treasure map to missing airliners, jewel smugglers, and stolen scientific plans. Each case puts his flying experience and detective instincts to work where greed or secrecy turns an assignment dangerous.

Intelligence reports suggest secret bases are being established on remote islands to threaten air and sea routes. Biggles and his friends join French policeman Marcel Brissac in searching the southern Indian Ocean for the hidden installations.

Biggles and Ginger join the Foreign Legion to support an undercover investigation into an organization profiting from war. Exposing those who sabotage peace brings them into a demanding military force and onto a dangerous international trail.

Thirteen stories return to Biggles's early combat flying during the First World War. Spy rescues, enemy tricks, and aircraft failures test the young pilot and his squadron, alongside introductions explaining the realities of pioneering air warfare.

Eight stories send Biggles into smuggling investigations, missing-person cases, and undercover assignments. Rescuing Marcel Brissac from Saigon and following a torn parachute to a murderer are among the challenges facing him and his fellow air policemen.

A newspaper photograph places Erich von Stalhein among survivors of an apparent shipwreck in Australia. Biggles flies out to investigate, determined to discover what his old adversary was doing there and what lies behind the rescue story.

Nine stories follow Biggles and his squadron through wartime flying adventures. A dangerous escape behind enemy lines, a mission to recover a valuable reconnaissance camera, and rival squadrons' aerial challenges test his ingenuity as well as his piloting.

Algy's visit to an old friend draws him into protecting a prince hunted by agents from behind the Iron Curtain. Biggles joins the search for the prince's missing relative, which leads to a dangerous mission involving royal jewels.

Aircraft carrying important passengers and secret documents have been disappearing over Africa. Biggles poses as another target to investigate, but a weapon forces his plane down in Liberia, leaving him captive and Ginger stranded in the jungle.

An apparent pirate attack near the Nicobar Islands sends Biggles and his team into the Indian Ocean. Doubts about the victim's account lead to rival smugglers, while a storm leaves the investigators stranded near their enemies' base.

Biggles and his Special Air Police colleagues investigate crimes that cross borders by aircraft. Diamond smuggling, a captive sheikh, and a murder disguised as an air crash feature in this collection of cases requiring both detective work and flying.

Inspector Gaskin suspects a fence is flying stolen goods abroad and asks Biggles to investigate. A fabricated jewel robbery provides the bait, sending Biggles into London's criminal circles to find the person handling the valuables.

Biggles learns that his old enemy von Stalhein is imprisoned on Sakhalin, accused of helping him. Threats against Biggles and the prisoner's nephew lead to a rescue mission that takes the team into a remote Siberian prison camp.

Biggles travels to the Pacific island of Oratovoa to investigate missing Swedish citizens. Wild dogs, a self-appointed king, and an awakening volcano turn the search into a struggle to keep his team safe on a dangerous island.

Eleven short stories follow Biggles and his team through aviation mysteries and rescue missions. A kidnapped wife, an aircraft submerged in a Scottish loch, and a sabotaged parachute provide clues to crimes that demand careful investigation.

A tip from von Stalhein sends Biggles to southern Chile in search of British gold hidden during the war. Missing botanists, hostile local officials, and severe weather complicate the team's hunt among the remote islands.

Biggles and Ginger travel to Mexico to recover diamonds stolen by a London gang. An informant's tip points to three fugitives in Eltora, where the thieves hope to evade the authorities and sell their haul to an international dealer.

Historical accounts introduce the people whose courage inspired Biggles, from explorers and aviators to sailors and a woman rescuing her imprisoned husband. These real exploits show the varied forms of bravery behind his imagined adventures.

Two officials have been killed in Central Africa, apparently by wild animals, and the Zinn people have become fearful and hostile. Biggles investigates suspicions that a secret society using leopard disguises is terrorizing the community.

Biggles returns to the Indian region where he grew up to rescue a Chinese fugitive hiding at a ruby mine. Finding the remote camp is difficult, and pursuing soldiers make the team's journey through the jungle increasingly dangerous.

Millionaire Otto Brandt and his secretary vanish aboard a yacht after his business ventures fail. Biggles investigates whether the disappearance conceals an escape with other people's money, following clues about the ship's supplies and intended destination.

A friend's discovery of ancient coins in Arabia persuades Biggles and his colleagues to organize a treasure expedition. When the advance party's aircraft is found abandoned and its occupants disappear, recovering the fortune becomes a rescue mission.

Biggles is persuaded to take a holiday in the village of Polstow, away from his usual duties. When a murder occurs, his break becomes an investigation as he finds himself unable to leave the mystery alone.

A young man once prosecuted by the Air Police asks Biggles for help, convinced a family curse will soon kill him. Biggles and Bertie investigate the threat, following a mystery rooted in the family's history.

A scientist steals nuclear research documents and demands payment for their return. Biggles and Bertie head into the Peruvian jungle to find him, racing to recover the papers before they can be passed to enemy hands.

This nonfiction collection examines hidden hoards, the events that created them, and the expeditions organized to recover them. Stories of pirates, conquered civilizations, and buried riches explore why treasure hunts so often end in disappointment.

A flying-club pilot and his aircraft vanish during a short passenger flight. Biggles, Ginger, and Bertie follow refueling clues to locate the missing plane, uncovering a smuggling operation that puts the investigators themselves at risk.

Eleven stories bring Biggles and his Air Police colleagues cases involving stolen artwork, rare coins, and suspicious aircraft. Smugglers and criminals exploit flying routes, while dangerous homemade planes and unusual clues call for the team's judgment.

An anonymous lunch invitation brings Biggles face to face with von Stalhein, who warns that three professional assassins have arrived in Britain. Biggles must identify their intended victim and investigate a threat connected to the Iron Curtain.

A Scottish island's owner discovers strangers on land he believed was uninhabited and hears aircraft arriving without lights. Biggles investigates the unexplained nighttime flights, turning a proposed development project into a case for the Air Police.

A flight to the ruins of Quarda appears to support Professor Zorlan's archaeological survey. Biggles suspects another purpose, and the expedition soon faces jet attacks, a sandstorm, and armed conflict that make uncovering the truth urgent.

Biggles distrusts a former RAF pilot who now operates an air charter company. Investigating flights to Switzerland and France, he and his companions uncover signs of an international criminal network directed by a mysterious man who hides his face.

Biggles searches for twenty thousand gold sovereigns lost during the evacuation of Singapore. A necklace found on a dead man provides a fresh clue, sending him and his companions through islands where pirates and corrupt officials threaten their investigation.

Eight short stories follow Biggles and the Special Air Police on investigations set mainly in Britain. An overturned aircraft begins one case, while other mysteries test the team's ability to connect unexpected clues and uncover wrongdoing.

Biggles agrees to transport Lin Seng's valuable pearl collection from Malaysia to London. When communication with Seng's home fails, he and Algy discover a siege, turning a flight assignment into a dangerous effort to secure an escape.

Biggles searches the Sahara for a brigadier's missing son, who went looking for an ancient king's tomb. With Ginger and Bertie, he follows an uncertain trail where sabotage and an untrustworthy expedition partner threaten their rescue mission.

A question about Marie Janis, the woman Biggles loved during the First World War, sends him toward Bohemia. His journey into Czechoslovakia brings old memories into the present as he tries to discover what became of her.

Biggles appears to leave the Air Police so he can infiltrate an operation supplying guns to African rebels. Hired as a pilot, he must uncover the racket while dangerous flights and a familiar criminal complicate his undercover role.

When Algy disappears during a gold-smuggling investigation in India, Biggles and Bertie search for him. His unexpected use of a jet fighter raises new questions as the trail leads into marshland and jungle near the Nepalese border.

An unidentified aircraft repeatedly slips beneath Britain's radar coverage, drawing Biggles to Cornwall. A policeman's murder and suspicious activity on Bodmin Moor suggest that the unexplained flights are connected to a dangerous criminal operation on the ground.

A jewel robbery in London sends Biggles, Bertie and Ginger toward a remote island off Labrador. Young Tommy Miller's account offers a lead, but recovering the stolen valuables means dealing with a ruthless criminal and his gunmen.

The theft of Lord Langdon's rubies appears straightforward, but Biggles doubts the obvious explanation. Following the trail from a Surrey manor to Africa, he discovers complications that make recovering the jewels far more difficult than expected.

Biggles and Algy investigate possible interference on a British island in the Bay of Bengal. A hostile man claiming to be a biologist raises their suspicions, while isolation and hazards around the lagoon make their inquiries increasingly dangerous.

Biggles searches for escaped criminal Nicolas Lazor, a man whose charm conceals a long history of crime. A trail beginning in a Soho nightclub leads toward a remote Hampshire farmhouse, where the hunt grows more dangerous.

These stories explore James Bigglesworth's childhood in rural India before he becomes a pilot. Encounters with dangerous animals and difficult situations test his courage and judgment, showing the experiences behind the adventurer readers meet in the later books.

A valuable jade idol with a ruby eye disappears aboard an aircraft bound for Santiago. Biggles and Algy travel thousands of miles to investigate, trying to establish whether the loss was an accident or a deliberate crime.

Biggles sets a trap for the organizer behind a string of major robberies. Ginger goes undercover as an Indian princess carrying valuable jewels, but the operation draws the team into a dangerous mystery involving other apparently respectable figures.

Sixteen-year-old Peter Fortymore refuses to accept that his brother is dead after being shot down in France. He and his friend Rip run away, impersonate flying officers and encounter Biggles while attempting a rescue behind enemy lines.

While holidaying on the Cornish coast, Biggles notices that a fishing boat returns with different passengers from those who boarded it. Recognizing a wanted criminal, he investigates a suspicious operation whose members react violently to his attention.

Biggles and Ginger parachute into Lucrania to find a British explosives expert reportedly killed in a crash. Evidence suggests the professor may still be alive, but recovering him means facing secret police and their old enemy Erich von Stalhein.

A clue found on a dead man sends Biggles, Ginger and Bertie after gold lost during Singapore's wartime evacuation. Their island search for a missing schooner brings encounters with pirates and officials who obstruct their efforts to recover the treasure.

Ten stories follow Biggles from his first flying lessons into combat with the Royal Flying Corps. Training mishaps, dangerous missions and the arrival of his cousin Algy show how an inexperienced pilot learns to survive the First World War.

Biggles leads an expedition to recover gold from a ship trapped in Antarctic ice. Extreme conditions and the dangers of landing in the frozen wilderness complicate the search, while a gang of villains threatens their claim to the cargo.