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Biggles’ visit to Mexico was one of the more unusual cases he was asked to investigate. It was unique in several ways. In the first place it did not really come within his province. The country, being off his usual ‘beat’, was unknown to him except by reputation and from what he was able to gather from the map. Until his arrival he had had no first-hand experience of the area in which he was to operate.

Again, being in a foreign country he had no authority, and could not therefore rely on local assistance. He had no aircraft. In fact, he had no transport of any sort after his hired car had let him down. For most of the time he was cut off from his assistants, Algy and Bertie, except through a postal letter service of doubtful efficiency.

Although opposed to men who would certainly be armed, neither he, nor Ginger who was with him, carried a weapon, the import of arms being forbidden. He might have got a ‘permit’ for one, but that would have meant giving reasons, which he was not prepared to do for fear of jeopardizing his inquiries. Actually, he thought it unlikely that he would need one, for his mission was originally intended to be no more than a simple routine investigation, occupying a couple of days at the outside. However, through unforeseen events for which he was not responsible it developed into something more than that.