BIGGLES IN THE UNDERWORLD
Book First Published in September 1968 - 184 pages
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The first edition dust jacket showing the original price of 10
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CHAPTERS
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16 – MORE QUESTIONS WITHOUT ANSWERS
Biggles is on the trail of
notorious criminal Nicholas Lazor, known as Nick the Sheikh or Lazor the Razor.
Lazor has escaped from Dartmoor prison and disappeared for two years and it has
now been discovered that he had joined the RAF. Lazor has recently been spotted
after the theft of a pearl necklace meeting a 'fair, blue-eyed' man in the
Icarian Club in London. Biggles joins the Icarian Club and after a while sees a
man answering the description of the 'fair, blue-eyed' man. Getting chatting to
him, Biggles finds out a lot of information. After a telephone call, the man
(who is called Caine) changes his attitude and leaves. Biggles leaves and is
attacked by the razor-wielding villain, Lazor. Surviving the attack with only a
slashed raincoat, Biggles sets about making enquiries with the information he
has learnt. Bertie goes to locate a farm that Caine says he has in Hampshire.
Finding it, and then being caught by a dog, Bertie climbs what appears to be a
solid haystack only to find it is hollow on the inside and there is an
aeroplane concealed there. Biggles and Ginger go looking for Bertie at the
farm, only to find it deserted and splattered with blood. Lazor has slashed
Caine's face and Caine has fled by car to hospital. Biggles climbs the haystack
and finds Lazor inside with Bertie. Lazor shoots his way out and the haystack
catches fire. In the confusion and darkness, Lazor escapes. Going to hospital
to see Caine, Biggles finds him more willing to talk about his association with
Lazor. A clue leads Biggles to the Podbury Flying Club and its Secretary,
Kendrick Seaton-Thompson. Thompson has been asked to deliver a package for
Lazor and on opening it, Biggles discovers it is the stolen pearl necklace.
Lazor is at the Flying Club and escapes in an old Gypsy Moth. Ginger gives
chase in the Auster aircraft. Lazor returns to Caine's farm and crashes his
plane. Ginger uses his radio to make contact with Algy back at base and pass
the information onto Biggles, who follows on, using a Flying Club plane. Here
the final showdown takes place before Lazor gets his comeuppance. The dust
cover shows Nick wielding his razor over a picture of the burning barn and the
aerial chase above.
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Biggles in the Underworld
Publication Details - published by Brockhampton Press
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