Biggles of the Special Air Police

Biggles of the Special Air Police
Cover Art	Cover of the book.
Author	W. E. Johns
Publisher	The Thames Publishing Co.
First Published	1953
Other Editions	9 English
Period	Post World War 2, Air Police plus some stories from R.F.C. era
Setting	Various

Biggles of the Special Air Police by W. E. Johns was first published in 1953 by Thames Publishing. There have been at least 9 subsequent editions in the English language.

Synopsis

The book is an anthology of 13 stories. The first six are short stories about Biggles and co. in the Special Air Police:

• The Case of the Black Gauntlet
• The Case of the Mandarin's Treasure Chest
• The Case of the Lost Souls
• The Case of the Too Successful Company
• The Case of the White Lion
• The Case of the Remarkable Perfume

After an introduction by W. E. Johns, there follows another seven short stories which are edited reprints of R.F.C. era adventures which had already been published in other collections. Six come from The Camels are Coming and the last is from The Raid. The stories are:

• The White Fokker
• The Packet
• J-9982
• The Balloonatics
• The Blue Devil
• Camouflage
• The Ace of Spades

International titles

• French: Huit affaires pour Biggles (with 2 stories from Biggles' Chinese Puzzle and without the WW1 stories) (Presses de la Cité 1954)