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...

Enjoy Manning Coles in top form with this spy tale of murder and intrigue taking place in the glamorous settings of the City of Paris and of the Canary Islands!

When five British prisoners escape from the Nazis, Tommy Hambledon is assigned to find out which one is a German double agent!

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

Drink to Yesterday was based on the early life of one of its two collaborators, Cyril Henry Coles, who left school, lied about his age and enlisted as a teenager in the British army during World War I. He was transferred to intelligence when his remarkable aptitude for conversational German was noticed, and he became the youngest member of Britain’s Foreign Intelligence Office (later MI6). Like Bill Saunders of the book, Coles spent much of the rest of war working behind enemy lines. Coles...

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...

Thomas Hambledon quicksteps from the Western Zone of Germany to the Eastern to locate the missing son of a man most important in atomic defense. His plottings are paralleled by the adventures of young Micklejohn who, escaping his Russian captors, is hidden by an underground group. Hambledon impersonates a Russian agent, and, across the frontier, picks up Micklejohn's trail but can they race back to safety?

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...

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 ...

This book consists of 12 action-paced short stories featuring the famous series spy, Tommy Hambledon, as he travels between England and continental Europe solving international intrigue. A must-have for any Manning Coles and historical WW2-era spy novel fan!

''Happy Returns'' is a humorous supernatural novel and the second installment in the Charles and James Latimer series (sandwiched between Brief Candles and Come and Go). The book follows a pair of chaotic, benevolent ghosts wreaking light-hearted havoc in 1950s Europe. The story centers around James and Charles Latimer, two 19th-century English cousins who met an untimely end in 1870. Emboldened by strong drink, they foolishly tried to halt a German military advance during the Franco-Pruss...

The Three Beans a.k.a. The Birdwatcher's Quarry by Manning Coles is a spy thriller novel which follows the adventures of Thomas Hambledon, the British foreign intelligence operative. The title stems from a crucial piece of physical evidence used to solve the crime—literally, three beans. In this story, an accidental death turns out to be a highly calculated murder. Tommy Hambledon investigates a dangerous gang after a young intelligence operative brings a case to his attention.