Captain WE Johns Books in Order

This illustrated collection explores early aviation through articles about military flying, aircraft construction, airships, long-distance routes and pilots' working lives. W. E. Johns contributes writing and paintings alongside accounts by other aviation writers.

Edited by W. E. Johns, this collection brings together flying adventures and pilots' accounts, including solo journeys, wartime bombing and aerial espionage. Contributions include James McCudden's experiences and Johns's account of spy flyer Charles Legrange.

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.

This nonfiction book examines the fighter aircraft and pilots of the First World War. Accounts of British, French and German aces sit alongside descriptions of their machines, tracing how aerial fighting developed during the conflict.

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.

Captain Rex Lovell and his observer Tony Fraser fly a Bristol Fighter on missions with the Royal Flying Corps. Their wartime adventures combine aerial fighting with espionage and mysteries that put both airmen in danger.

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.

This account follows milestones in aviation, from early balloon flights to airships and journeys across the Atlantic. Its chapters examine the attempts, machines and pioneering flights that helped people extend the limits of air travel.

Edited by W. E. Johns, this collection lets aviators describe their most thrilling flights in their own accounts. Contributions from pilots including Pauline Gower and James McCudden explore the experiences that made particular journeys memorable.

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.

Former wartime pilot Steeley Delaroy struggles to find a place in peacetime England. With his friend Tubby, he turns to air smuggling, pursuing a life outside the law that draws them into dangerous adventures.

Steeley and his friends travel to Paris to collect a new aircraft. A fragment of newspaper concerning missing American Virginia Marven catches their attention, drawing the airmen into an investigation of her disappearance.

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.

A death at a flying club is dismissed as an accident, but Steeley remains unconvinced. His doubts draw him and his friends into an investigation that tests the official explanation of what happened.

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.

In seventeenth-century Jamaica, fifteen-year-old Mark Lawson learns that pirates have captured his father's ship. Joining Captain John Champion, he confronts corruption in Port Royal and ventures into the Spanish Main in search of his father.

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.

Steeley, Tubby and Brian accept a job rebuilding the air force of Carabonia, a Central American republic. They arrive amid rebellion and disorder, then discover that the country's political struggle complicates their new assignment.

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.

Rodney Lovell discovers his brother Lance's work in counterespionage after they rescue a woman pursued by armed men. Reports of secret glider landings draw the brothers into an investigation of enemy activity in England.

A condemned man insists that a criminal gang has framed him for murder. With his execution approaching, Steeley and Tubby investigate a written account of the gang's activities, only to find a crucial page missing.

Worrals notices an unexpected geranium in an aircraft and suspects that an apparently routine flight hides enemy activity. With Frecks, she follows the trail into wartime France, where investigating the clue becomes a dangerous mission.

Worrals and Frecks fly to occupied France to carry intelligence back to England from a Resistance chateau. German troops have already taken over the house, forcing the two pilots to conceal their aircraft and improvise under constant suspicion.

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.

Sixteen-year-old Cub, stranded in France after searching for his father during the Dunkirk evacuation, joins a youth resistance group. Meeting Gimlet's commandos gives him a chance to help British missions through his knowledge of the occupied country.

Worrals proposes a hidden refueling base in the Cevennes to help British aircraft reach Malta. She and Frecks travel to occupied France to organize it, but local suspicion and German searches threaten the airfield and everyone protecting it.

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.

A message found off Australia suggests nine British girls who escaped Singapore are stranded on an island. Worrals and Frecks set up a search base and survey the islands, racing to locate survivors in territory threatened by war.

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.

After Bill Ashton leaves to work at his uncle's gold mine in southwest Africa, his promised letters stop arriving. Worrals and Frecks fly out to find him, but a hostile reception and dwindling fuel complicate their search.

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.

Tony travels from England to an Arizona ranch hoping outdoor work will improve his health. With his new friend Pash, he discovers evidence of cattle rustling and becomes involved in a dangerous pursuit through desert and canyon country.

In Australia, Worrals and Frecks meet Janet, whose inherited property may contain valuable opals. They help her return after threats drove her away, only to find intruders and a struggle over the land that makes the inheritance 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.

Gimlet fails to appear for a reunion dinner, prompting Cub, Copper, and Trapper to investigate. Their search leads to his newly inherited Scottish estate and an abandoned mine, where finding their commander raises disturbing questions about what happened.

Worrals travels into northern Canada's wilderness to capture Anna Schultz, a former concentration-camp wardress wanted for war crimes. Bringing her back for trial requires a pursuit through remote country, where danger extends beyond the fugitive herself.

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.

A government department asks Gimlet to rescue a Turkish statesman imprisoned after a shipwreck on the Caucasian coast. Cub, Copper, and Trapper join a mission to penetrate the ancient fortress holding him and bring him out safely.

The Secret Service sends Worrals and Frecks to investigate weapons reaching workers on a Middle Eastern highway project. With an insurrection feared, they travel into Egypt and the Sinai Desert to uncover who is financing and distributing the arms.

A red-haired woman fires on a boat visiting an apparently haunted Pacific atoll, killing a crew member. Raymond sends Worrals and Frecks to investigate Outside Island, where the attack suggests something more dangerous than its ghostly reputation.

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.

Gimlet and his team enter the jungles of British Honduras to investigate an attack on an orchid collector. Their search passes through abandoned villages and ancient ruins, where suspicious activity and Cub's disappearance turn the mission into a rescue.

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.

A gangster hiding in Cyprus suddenly becomes wealthy and begins traveling with former enemies from the American underworld. Gimlet and his team investigate the unexplained change, seeking the reason behind an alliance that appears dangerously unlikely.

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.

Tiger Clinton and his son Rex lose their way in Scottish fog and find a castle where Professor Brane is building a spaceship. Joining his experiments takes their holiday into space, where exploration brings unfamiliar worlds and unexpected dangers.

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.

Professor Brane, Tiger Clinton, and their companions return to Mars in a larger spaceship. Their plan to tackle the planet's vast mosquito swarms brings unexpected consequences, while strange discoveries suggest that Mars still has secrets to reveal.

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.

Tiger Clinton, Rex, Professor Brane, and Toby explore unfamiliar planets in search of new worlds. Strange inhabitants, hostile creatures, and civilizations trapped beneath ice turn their voyage into a series of dangerous encounters far from Earth.

Four friends form a company to pursue adventures and follow a dying man's account of gold in British Honduras. Their journey upriver brings them into conflict with rival prospectors as they search the jungle for the promised riches.

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.

Tiger Clinton and his companions revisit Mars before venturing farther into space aboard the Tavona. When they encounter an invasion of a peaceful planet, they must decide whether Earth's technology can help against the attackers' superior weapons.

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.

Tony West travels to France after learning that his estranged brother has been murdered and left him an estate. An artist connected to his brother and money missing since the German occupation complicate his search for the killer.

Professor Brane and his companions obtain permission to survey distant planets aboard the Tavona. Their expedition beyond familiar territory exposes them to strange atmospheric effects, hazardous worlds, and questions about a region known for its deadly dangers.

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.