Worrals and her friend Frecks are two capable and adventurous members of the W.A.A.F. An unexpected opportunity to ferry a plane begins a series of thrilling discoveries, and they find themselves on the trail of an enemy spy gang operating near their aerodrome. After capture, rescue, and exciting chases the spies are outwitted through the girls' heroism and quick wits.Authentic Air Force detail makes this a fascinating and unusual tale, and Worrals will become as popular and well-l...

Professor Bane and his crew, of “Kings of Space” fame, return in their spaceship to Mars, to investigate the situation there again, to see whether they can find any inhabitants, and to try out the effect of a new insecticide. They find more than they have bargained for, but, in spite of the dangers involved for them, it turns out to be a good thing for Earth that they did go back.

The fourth space voyage of Rex Clinton as one of Professor Brane’s companions in exploration. Not only does the party find strange new worlds in Outer Space, but they also run into interplanetary war.

Police Inspector Gaskin was bothered him terribly that he couldn’t get a grip on the perpetrators of a series of brutal jewelry thefts. The gang that planned these crimes was so sophisticated that the police didn't stand a chance, because no trace was left behind. Finally, however, although he could not prove it, the inspector became convinced that the gang was operating on a plane. And that made him decide to enlist Major Bigglesworth, in order to fight the unknown and invisible enemy, as...

A visit to Biggles’ uncle, Dickpa, lands Biggles, Algy, and mechanic Smyth in a dangerous adventure looking for an ancient Inca treasure hoard.

When Squadron Officer Joan Worralson (better known as “Worrals”) and Flight Officer Betty Lovell (“Frecks”) were demobilized, they were in much the same position as a million other girls, when peace left them on the threshold of an unknown world called civil life. As Worrals put it, visibility, as far as the immediate future was concerned, was zero.While they were deciding what to do with the rest of their lives, the two friends took a flat together in Knightsbridge and it was here...

There are all sorts of rumours about the island of Oratovca in the South Pacific. Though it is “uninhabited”, ships have been failing to return from there, and there are sailors’ yarns about what has been seen there. Biggles and his Air Police fly to investigate the mystery, and find that they are indeed tackling a hot job.

A chance meeting with Air Commodore Raymond of Scotland Yard, and Worrals and her friend Frecks are away again on a journey charged with mystery and danger. Outside Island, a British possession in the Pacific, is a tiny atoll with the reputation of being haunted. The crew of a native boat on a trip to the island for copra are fired on by a white woman with red hair and one of their number, a French subject, is killed. The French authorities suggest that the matter should be investigated an...

“If you will go to the Adlon Restaurant in Bank Street, Kensington, today, at a quarter to one precisely, and sit at table number two, you will be joined by someone who will give you information you should be glad to have.—A Well-wisher.”“You can’t come to much harm in Kensington,” Bertie said. But this anonymous letter sets Biggles off on the trail of three murderers in a thrilling story of espionage which takes him and the Air Police to West Berlin.

In 1942, Worrals and Frecks are sent to Aleppo in occupied Syria to investigate a German propaganda racket designed to stir up unrest among the locals.

The mission brought Biggles, Ginger, Algy and Bertie in the Air Police ‘Gadfly’ amphibian to the north-east frontier of India—to rescue a wealthy Chinese fugitive from the Communists.

Biggles Presses On is a collection of 11 Biggles short stories.