Biggles Sorts It Out

The theft of Lord Langdon’s collection of rubies from Ferndale Manor in Surrey looked simple enough. ‘A bit too straightforward,’ said Biggles. ‘These apparently simple cases have a trick of coming unstuck,’ a remark which a flight to Africa and the events that followed proved only too true, though the ending when it came was so unpredictable that even Biggles was lost for words.