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Biggles and the poor rich boy: another case from the records of Biggles and the Special Air Police
Brockhampton Press
1961
Biggles hunts for a kidnapper in the wilds of Scotland.
Biggles fails to return: a Biggles adventure
Hodder & Stoughton Limited
1951
Biggles is charged with rescuing a Princess from Monaco.
Bill Berenger's first case
Blackie & Son Limited
1948
Bill is an apprentice on the Chideok Mote when two of her officers are accused of murder when in a South American port.
The bulldog breed
Blackie & Son Limited
1940s
Three former sailors defend the Valdorian Government against revolutionaries.
Escape through Yugoslavia
Frederick Warne & Co Ltd
1956
While leading an Adriatic cruise Lord Whitehope is called upon to help a peace-loving Russian escape to Britain.
Garry Halliday and the disappearing diamonds
Faber and Faber
1960
Garry Halliday's first encounter with the Voice, in which he thwarts a smuggling racket. The first book in the series.
Garry Halliday and the kidnapped five
Faber and Faber
1962
Garry Halliday's latetst encounter with the Voice takes him to Switzerland on the trail of five kidnapped scientists. The third book in the series.
Held to ransom
Blackie & Son Limited
1951
When Sir Montague Corton answered an advertisement offering a cruise he little knew that the yacht had been stolen and that he would be asked to pay ransom for his son and friend.
Mossyface: a romance of the air
John Trendler and Norman Wright
1994
Originally published by John Leng in their Weekly Telegraph Novel series. Number 162 in a limited edition of 300.
The mystery of the key
Blackie & Son Limited
1948
A sponge-getting venture leads to unexpected adventures.
Noel Hamilton's probation
C. Arthur Pearson, Ltd.
1921
Noel Hamilton has to leave Renton School when his patron dies in a car crash, and, unknowingly, must prove himself worthy to inherit his fortune.
Sabarinda island
Blackie & Son Limited
1950
Keith Standish and Shorty Curtayne travel to Borneo to recover secret atomic papers.
The secret agent
Frederick Warne & Co., Ltd.
1946
A foreign correspondent is helped by his Chinese house boy to make a stance against Japanese invaders.
The secret of the silver bottle
Blackie & Son Limited
1936
Enemy agents attempt to abscond with a silver bottle containing a phial of a new poison gas.
The sky-pirates
Blackie & Son Limited
1955
The Sky-Pirates are a multinational gang of desperadoes whose flying suits give them the ability to prey on travellers from their hideout in the Syrian desert.
The sniper: a book for boys
James Nisbet & Co., Limited
1914
A boy's turbulent schooldays are eventually offset by his bravery in the army.
Voyage to chivalry
Peter Lunn
1947
Hugh Martyn, an apprentice to a wine-dealer in London, sets out to find the Holy Land of chivalry (Main, PL66).
