It's the same Hambledon, but far from his usual European haunts. Plunked down in a Central American republic, Tommy finds himself trapped between hot Latin temperaments and cold "hostile powers". Full of page-turning suspense and intrigue, DANGEROUS BY NATURE is top-drawer Manning Coles to be sure!

A British diplomat, looking natty in a green hat, walks into the brooding hills above Lake Como and disappears. The police investigate but can uncover no clues or evidence. This is a job for British Intelligence in the person of none other than the intrepid Tommy Hambledon. Hambledon takes on Italy's vicious underworld, is diverted by some society types, and side-steps some unrepentant fascists in this rapid-transit chase for a mastermind and a hidden treasure.

A Hambledon espionage story set in Central Europe behind the Iron Curtain. A 13-year-old princeling has been sent into Russia to a school for leadership and Hambledon is assigned to his rescue and spiriting him out of Russian hands to safety in England. Plenty of violence, quick thinking, fast talking and changes of identity before a plane is used to make a speedy getaway!

British secret agent Tommy Hambleton is believed to have been killed in an explosion, but will spies inside wartime Germany find out that a famous explosives expert cooperating with the Nazis is really Hambleton?... He is impersonating a scientist who has developed a new and powerful explosive.

The Far Traveller is a light and frothy tale by the creator of British spy Tommy Hambledon. Manning Coles gives us the Graf van Grauhegel and his servant Franz who, after being dead nearly a century and haunting the castle in the interval, re-materialize in order to right an old wrong so they may finally rest in peace. In the meantime, they also manage to unmask a fraudulent medium...This is a delightful ghostly romp–light on mystery, but full of fun and frolic. Coles gives the rea...

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 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!

Tommy Hambleton, a British Foreign Intelligence officer, impersonates the Deputy Chief of the German Police in order to pass on information about the Nazi regime...

Tommy Hambledon, a British secret agent, investigates a case that includes stolen jewels, secret airplane plans, gangsters, and international assassins!

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?

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...

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...