The Unknown Diamonds is the eleventh and last short story in the fourth anthology of Biggles Air Police short stories entitled Biggles and the Pirate Treasure. The anthology was first published in July, 1954 by Brockhampton. In the anthology, this story is preceded by The Case of the Phone Box Murder.
Synopsis[]
A police raid at a pawnbrokers uncovers an unexpected cache of diamonds of such high quality that they could only have come from Southwest Africa. But no such diamonds have been reported stolen or lost, and there is no record of them having been imported. So how did these diamonds enter the country and who do they belong to?
Plot[]
See the article on Dr. Shultz for a detailed summary of the plot.
Characters[]
The Special Air Police/Scotland Yard[]
- Air Commodore Raymond
- Biggles
- Algy Lacey
- Ginger Hebblethwaite
- Bertie Lissie
- Gaskin
Others[]
Aircraft[]
- Handley Page Halifax
- Dornier (transport) - a wartime bomber converted to a transport. Type not specified. Probably a Do 217.
- Unspecified commercial airliner from Algiers to Paris via Marseilles - probably a Lockheed Constellation or Breguet 763 of Air France[1]
Places[]
Visited[]
- Southwest Africa
- Windhoek - likely Windhoek Eros Airport
- Kleetmanshoop
- Uperton - Johns might have meant Upington in South Africa. The location is about right but the airport there only opened in 1968. This book was written in 1954.
- Kumene River - overflight only
- Cape Cross - overflight only
- Kaokovelt - overflight only
- Kalahari
- Etosha Pan
- Grosse Karas Mountains
- Algiers
- London