The Case of the Mysterious Gunshots is the eighth short story in Biggles Takes the Case. The anthology, the second one about Biggles in the Air Police, was published in 1952. This particular story was originally published in The Golden Book of Comics by Odhams Press in 1950. In the anthology, this story is preceded by The Case of the Secret Aerofoil and followed by The Hare and the Tortoise.
The story has been adapted in comic form as The Mysterious Gunshots in Issue 6 of the Adventures of Biggles comic series published by Action Comics of Sydney, Australia.
Synopsis[]
Biggles and co. investigate complaints about mysterious machine gun fire coming from an aircraft flying over the Sudd in Southern Sudan.
Plot[]
See article under Brund for a summary of the plot.
Characters[]
The Special Air Police/Scotland Yard[]
- Air Commodore Raymond
- Biggles
- Algy Lacey
- Ginger Hebblethwaite
- Bertie Lissie
Others[]
- Captain Stonehouse
- Brund
- Heckel
- Paul Loezer
- Unnamed station commander at RAF Khartoum
Aircraft[]
- Percival Proctor
- Fiesler Storch
- Nestorian airliner
Places[]
Visited[]
- Gatwick - Air Police Operational Headquarters. Raymond had just done an inspection of Air Police equipment.
- Khartoum
- Sudd
Mentioned[]
Other points of interest[]
Cars[]
- Gaskin has a car
Newspapers/magazines/books[]
- a photograph of elephants in the Sudd
Firearms and other weapons[]
- Brund and Heckel used a machine gun but not during the confrontation with Biggles. The type is not stated.
- Brund and Heckel also had automatics
- Loezer had a rifle
- The Air Police crew used unspecified handguns
Brands/products[]
Food and Drinks[]
- Biggles offers Raymond a cigarette
- The Air Police crew lunched at RAF Khartoum
Organisations[]
- Sudan Administration
- Sudan Police
- RAF Khartoum
Research Notes[]
- Biggles tells Raymond the Sudd stretches from Khartoum to Malakal. In actuality, Malakal is the northern limit of the Sudd, which is generally thought to be between Mongalla and Malakal, wholly in what is today South Sudan.