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Biggles and the Plot that Failed (Biggles #83)

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Title:Biggles and the Plot that Failed (Biggles #83)
Author:
Johns, W. E. (William Earl)   
(12 of 100 for author by title)
Biggles and the Poor Rich Boy (Biggles #68)
Biggles and the Penitent Thief (Biggles #90)
Published:   1965
Publisher:Brockhampton Press Ltd
Tags:adventure, desert, fiction, treasure, Biggles (Fictional character)
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When Adrian Mander flew off to the Sahara to look for the tomb of King Ras Tenazza, his choice of a partner was unlucky, for once they had located the site, the unscrupulous Sekunder took off in their aircraft, leaving the young archaeologist to die of thirst. Weeks later, ignorant of these events, Biggles comes looking for Adrian. What he finds astonishes even the hard-bitten Biggles, and his ultimate meeting with Sekunder shows Biggles at his most resourceful.—Dustcover. [Suggest a different description.]

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Author Bio for Johns, W. E. (William Earl)

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William Earl Johns (1893-1968), better known as Capt. W. E. Johns, was a British author noted for his juvenile fiction featuring stories about pilots and flying. Johns first career was as a sanitary inspector but he soon gave it up to enlist in the army at the beginning of World War I. He saw action during the Gallipoli Campaign and also served garrison duty in Egypt. Afterwards he applied to serve in the Royal Flying Corps. He was posted to a flying school in England where he trained pilots. In the 1930s he began to write fiction basing his stories on his flying experience. All told he wrote over 150 novels and short stories for young boys and girls. (wejohns.com)

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