BIGGLES GETS HIS MEN
Book First Published on 17th August 1950* - 189 pages
* This information is taken from a letter
from A. P. Watt & Son to W. E. Johns in my collection
This story was first published and serialised in a newspaper
called The
Sunday Herald in Sydney, Australia in 20 weekly parts from Sunday 23rd
January 1949 until Sunday 5th June 1949
The first edition dust jacket showing the original price of 6
shillings
CHAPTERS
Click on any chapter for a summary of the events in that chapter or
see the general story summary below
Biggles investigates the
kidnapping of some highly specialised scientists. The book features Algy,
Ginger and Bertie although Algy only plays a very small part in the story. A
bizarre clue, involving three V's tattooed on a Chinaman's head, leads the team
to a remote part of China. A rescue mission is mounted and this includes
Chinese expert and speaker, Captain Roderick Mayne. The team locate the
villains' base and have to organise the escape of the captured scientists.
Biggles and Ginger infiltrate their camp and discover the presence of an old
enemy. Biggles is captured and held, watched over by a huge Mongolian and this
is the event that is pictured on the cover dust jacket of the book. Helped and
hindered by a strange Cossack called Colonel Alexis Petroffsky,
the scientists are freed and there is a climatic
battle before the team escapes.
Click here to see the story illustrations from this book
Biggles Gets His Men
Subtitle - A further adventure of Sergeant Bigglesworth, of the
Special Air Service, CID
Publication Details - published by Hodder & Stoughton
Frontispiece
Click on the above to see it in more detail
The Childrens Book Club edition reprint click on the above
picture to find out more details