A collection of eight stories from the Special Air Police days:

• Biggles chinese puzzle - the team rescue Marcel whilst uncovering a money smuggling racket between France and Vietnam
• The case of the modern pirate - an Englishman steals a ship and pretends to be Blackbeard before losing his boat, his cargo of gold, and life, on a Guinea beach
• The adventure of the luminous clay - Biggles recovers a bucket load of radioactive material from a sinking Pacific island
• The flying crusaders - Biggles uncovers a longstanding plot to steal a painting that has clues to a secret jewel cache in Russia
• The mystery of the torn parachute - Biggles traces a bank robber to a farm in Scotland, thanks to a small piece of parachute left on a tree in the area
• The case of the missing constable - Gaskin asks Biggles to help find a missing bobby. Biggles finds his body in the grave of his mother, put there by the local priest and part-time burglar
• The case of the secret inquisitors - Biggles goes undercover to determine who is behind the kidnapping and brainwashing of a series of British scientists and diplomats
• Operation starlight - Biggles and the team crack a collection of smuggling operations between England and France