Manning Coles

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  • Bibliography:
    17 Books (2 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 1985
  • Latest Book:
    August 2011
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Full Series List in Order

A Tommy Hambledon Novel

The Fifth Man (Nov-1986)
Green Hazard (Jul-1987)

A Tommy Hambledon Spy Novel

Let the Tiger Die (Apr-2011)
Among Those Absent (Aug-2011)

Book List in Order: 17 titles

  • A Toast to Tomorrow

    Book Sense March 2008 Notable Book Pick. Joseph Goebbels is fuming. It's the mid-1930s and the Nazi Minister of Propoganda has a nice little racket going. He and his cohorts are allowing Jews to slip out of Germany in return for 80 percent of their a...

  • Without Lawful Authority

  • Night Train to Paris

  • No Entry

  • The Man in the Green Hat

    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 t...

  • The Fifth Man

    A Tommy Hambledon Novel

    When a man of many aliases turns up as the fifth of a party of British prisoners to be landed on the south coast of England from a German submarine, Tommy Hambledon takes a special interest in his activities. First published in 1946....

  • Green Hazard

    A Tommy Hambledon Novel

  • All That Glitters

  • Brief Candles

    Sally and Jeremy Latimer are pleased, if somewhat puzzled, when two gentlemen with decidedly old-world manners choose to befriend them when their car mysteriously breaks down in the small French village of St. Denissur-Aisne while on holiday one fine...



  • Come and Go

    Young Richard Scroby didn't intend to make a fuss when the burglar broke into his apartment. After all, that's why he kept a very competent manservant about. But Wilkins was out of town and Richard was a little the worse for drink so when he spotted ...

  • Happy Returns

    Emboldened by strong drink, tourists James and Charles Latimer met an untimely end while foolishly trying to stop a German advance during the Franco-Prussian War of 1870 and were put to their not-so-eternal rest in a cemetery in a small French villag...

  • The Far Traveller

    The Herr Graf was a familiar sight to the residents of the Rhineland village of Grauhugel. After all he'd been walking the halls of the local castle at night and occasionally nodding to the servants ever since he drowned some 86 years ago. No one was...

  • Drink to Yesterday

    When Drink to Yesterday first appeared in Britain in 1940 and in the U.S. in 1941, it was immediately heralded as a departure from the fanciful spy-and-intrigue novels that preceded it. Gone were complicated passwords, deadly dames in black velvet, a...

  • They Tell No Tales

  • With Intent to Deceive

    In his first postwar adventure, Tommy Hambledon is drawn into a hunt for a large sum of money stolen by the Nazis and hidden in Argentina. Among others things, the book is noteworthy for introducing Forgan and Campbell, a pair of model-makers who bec...

  • Let the Tiger Die

    A Tommy Hambledon Spy Novel

    With the Nazis vanquished, British agent Tommy Hambledon finds a new enemy. ...

  • Among Those Absent

    A Tommy Hambledon Spy Novel

    Tommy Hambledon goes undercover to break up a gang that specializes in helping prisoners escape from jail. ...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Manning Coles has published 17 books.

Manning Coles does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Among Those Absent, was published in August 2011.

The first book by Manning Coles, A Toast to Tomorrow, was published in January 1985.

Yes. Manning Coles has 2 series.
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