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.

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.

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...

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...

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...

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

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!

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 ...

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

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...

''Come and Go'' is a whimsical story which serves as the third and final installment in their popular Charles and James Latimer series. The story follows Richard Scroby, a well-to-do young man who accidentally knocks a burglar out of his window with an ugly vase. To escape his formidable Aunt Angela, who uses the scandalous event as an excuse to force him into marriage, Richard flees to Paris. Unfortunately, he accidentally runs straight into the path of the incarcerated burglar's dangerou...