Order of Manning Coles Books
Manning Coles was the author of the Tommy Hambledon series of books. The name of Manning Coles is actually a pen name for two British authors, Adelaide Oke Manning and Cyril Coles. The two would write 26 books with Thomas Hambledon as the protagonist.
Coles and Manning met after living close to each other in East Meon. They both worked during World War I as Manning was employed at the war office and Coles worked for British intelligence. This lead to their early books being very grimy and realistic. After the war, their books calmed down a bit and featured a more lighthearted tone. Many of the original adventures of Hambledon were based on experience that Coles had during his time in World War I, including his time spent behind enemy lines.
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Publication Order of Tommy Hambledon Books
| Drink to Yesterday | (1940) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Pray Silence / A Toast to Tomorrow | (1940) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| They Tell No Tales | (1941) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Without Lawful Authority | (1943) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Green Hazard | (1945) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Fifth Man | (1946) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Let the Tiger Die | (1947) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| With Intent to Deceive / A Brother for Hugh | (1947) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Among Those Absent | (1948) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Diamonds to Amsterdam | (1949) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Not Negotiable | (1949) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Dangerous by Nature | (1950) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Now or Never | (1951) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Alias Uncle Hugo /.Operation Manhunt | (1952) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Night Train to Paris | (1952) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| A Knife for the Juggler /The Vengeance Man | (1953) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| All that Glitters / Not For Export / The Mystery of the Stolen Plans | (1954) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Man in the Green Hat | (1955) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Basle Express | (1956) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Three Beans / Birdwatcher's Quarry | (1957) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Death Of An Ambassador | (1957) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| No Entry | (1958) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Crime in Concrete / Concrete Crime | (1960) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Search for a Sultan | (1961) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The House at Pluck's Gutter | (1963) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Charles and James Latimer Books
| Brief Candles | (1954) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Happy Returns | (1955) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Come and Go | (1958) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Standalone Novels
| The Far Traveller | (1956) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
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A Toast to Tomorrow takes place in the mid-1930s as the Nazis are running wild. There is dissension in the Nazi party as the Minister of Propaganda is allowing Jews to slip out of Germany in return for eighty percent of their assets. However, the chief of the German police is not going to let him get away with it. On the British side, they are reeling as they have been getting messages sent from inside Germany in a code that hasn’t been used since World War I.
They Tell No Tales sees the British Admiralty ask British Intelligence for help in nailing down saboteurs and they send Tommy Hambledon. He is sent to the Portsmouth naval base with instructions to meet a dockyard workman who has a story to tell. Before the workman can talk, he is shot dead. Now, Tommy will need to work hard to put a name and face to the killer.