It's Tommy Hambledon, of course, and this time on the track of a counterfeiting ring which keeps him racing from London to Brussels to France, with way stops for every kind of action in the book. It all started when Tommy observed some curious byplay in a café called the Taverne Gruber in Brussels. The restaurant provided cardboard circular mats, and one of these was carefully inspected by a solitary patron, then pocketed. Whereupon the patron left hurriedly and was promptly followed by an...

Two unknown amateurs help Tommy Hambledon, a British Foreign Intelligence officer, track down Nazi spies in England.

Tommy's Swedish vacation turns into a hunt for Nazis who still dream of restoring the third Reich.

This one's about murder and kidnapping and smuggling diamonds and turning lead into gold...

Crime Club classic with Scotland Yard on one side, a sinister gang on the other and the novel's Tommy Hambledon right in the middle in this, his first post-war adventure.

Tommy is back, and again he’s in Germany, posing as a camera-toting tourist while trailing Fascists. The investigation starts in Cologne when a corpse is found hung out like a batch of wash from a ruined building. Then Tommy learns about two girls whose custom it is “to frolic among the ruins” late at night and finds that his buddies are on hand to help him unravel the mystery of the Silver Ghosts, the Nazi outfit he is after. After another man has died among the wrecked buildings, can Tom...

British Intelligence agent Tommy Hambledon had the mistaken notion when he arrived at Innsbruck that he had left behind all connections with Herr Bastien, who had been shot in the railway compartment they shared on the Anglo-Swiss Express. But when he was commanded by a belligerent Austrian taxi driver to dis-robe, and then forced at gunpoint to hike barefoot over the Alps, Hambledon ruefully decided that his vacation was over. With the help of a horse-faced English tourist–and over the op...

It started the night a safe-cracker was shot on a Stepney street by a soft-spoken killer. Through an ingenious piece of detection - and with the help of his underworld friends - Tommy Hambledon succeeded in identifying the killer as the notorious Louis Magid. The problem was to find a man so vicious and so feared that even the criminals let him walk alone. The trail led to a small French village, an old castle and a mysterious woman. And, as Hambledon discovered in crime the female of the ...

Tommy Hambledon goes undercover to break up a gang that specializes in helping prisoners escape from jail. Tommy goes flying, hiding, boating and as always, succeeding in his endeavours. Full of adventure and wry British humor, this one is even more funny and even more un-put-downable than usual and will definitely not disappoint Manning Coles fans!

In "Pray Silence," Manning Coles delivers a gripping narrative woven through the complex tapestry of post-World War II Europe. The novel unfolds against a backdrop of espionage and intrigue, employing a brisk and sardonic prose style emblematic of Coles' talent for balancing humor with suspense. The story centers on the existential dilemmas faced by its characters, navigating the murky ethics of intelligence work amidst the shifting political landscape of the time. Coles skillfully interla...

An English businessman finds his life in danger when he accidentally receives secret information from a defector from East Germany.

More adventures of Tommy Hambledon, that inconspicuous, deadly English agent who now goes to work on home territory to solve a series of English battleship explosions, followed by murder. Involved are a hairdresser, a governess, a wine merchant, and their affiliates. Close shaving for Hambledon, assisted by young Bellair, until the Nazi prime mover is qualified and nabbed...