The Thought Reader
Written by
W. E. Johns
Copyright 1932
8th of 13 stories in . It was published as Biggles on the Trail in The Modern Boy #291, Sep. 2, 1933. It was rewritten as a WWII story called Biggles On The Trail in The Modern Boy's Annual, 1941.
Biggles learns that a German spy is using using corn in a farm field as a signal to pilots reporting on British troop movements. When Biggles tries to interfere, he is shot in the head! It is luckily just a graze and he comes up with his revenge.