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Biggles Works it Out (1951)

by W. E. Johns

Series: Biggles (41)

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Half a ton of gold has been stolen from the Australian outback without a trace being left on the desert sands. Biggles flies off to Australia in search of clues, but all he finds is a toothpick wrapper and a button.
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Het schijnt dat de Engelse luchtvaartpolitie tijd kan besteden aan het vinden van een man die een knop van zijn jas mist. Wat een geluk dat die man niet intussen iets anders heeft aangetrokken.

Op diverse plaatsen in de wereld vinden overvallen plaats. Steeds lijkt het er op dat er een vliegtuig gebruikt wordt. Samen met Bertie en Ginger vliegt Biggles naar Australie, waar een goudmijn is beroofd van het goud. De verdere ontwikkelingen spelen zich voor een groot deel af in Frans Afrika.
Bertie krijgt een baan aangeboden bij de dieven, en neemt deze aan, zodat hij dichter bij de bandieten zit. Toch blijkt al snel dat hij in gevaar is.

Erich von Stalhein speelt een kleine, doch belangrijke, rol in dit boek. Aan het eind van het verhaal schiet hij een van zijn mede-daders in de maag, zodat hij kon vluchten.

Als ik halve sterren kon uitdelen, had ik dit boek 3 1/2 ster gegeven. Nu blijf ik op 3 hangen. ( )
  EdwinKort | Oct 18, 2019 |
Great pictorial cover - planes fighting about 6 feet above the terrain
  jon1lambert | Apr 3, 2015 |
Before I read this, my first Biggles book, I thought he was just something Jethro Tull and Monty Python made up.

Biggles' adventures started in the early 1930s and continued for 96 books. This one is from 1951, a time when the world contains a large number of abandoned airfields left over from the war. Special Air Police Captain Bigglesworth and his comrades "Ginger" Hebblethwaite and Algy Lacey are called in to investigate the robbery of gold shipment in Australia and soon find themselves on the trail of an international ring of thieves, murderers, and gold smugglers operating out of France and Algeria. One of the villains seems to be a recurring enemy of Biggles.

This is a boy's book. The sole woman is a briefly seen waitress. There's no sex, no explicit violence though people do get killed. Johns isn't afraid of coincidence to drive his story nor is exposition the most gracefully handled - and there surprisingly isn't that much aviation tech talk.

It's a fun, quick read for kids and adults, an interesting, globehopping adventure from a time when the map of the world wasn't as filled in and communication not as easy. And there is a nice framing metaphor about how the expansion of civilization is causing beasts and criminals to retreat to the most inaccessible parts of the world. ( )
  RandyStafford | Jan 28, 2012 |
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Half a ton of gold has been stolen from the Australian outback without a trace being left on the desert sands. Biggles flies off to Australia in search of clues, but all he finds is a toothpick wrapper and a button.

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