Tommy Hambledon adventures

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The following was copied from Wikipedia on June 29 2011: Manning Coles is the pseudonym of two British writers, Adelaide Frances Oke Manning (1891-1959) and Cyril Henry Coles (1899-1965), who wrote many spy thrillers from the early 40s through the early 60s. The fictional protagonist in 26 of their books was Thomas Elphinstone Hambledon, who works for the Foreign Office. Manning and Coles were neighbors in East Meon, Hampshire. Coles worked for British Intelligence in both the World Wars. Manning worked for the War Office during World War I. Their first books were fairly realistic and with a touch of grimness; their postwar books perhaps suffered from an excess of lightheartedness and whimsy. They also wrote a number of humorous novels about modern-day ghosts, some of them involving ghostly cousins named Charles and James Latimer. These novels were published in England under the pseudonym of Francis Gaite but released in the United States under the Manning Coles byline.

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The house at Pluck's Gutter

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Among those absent

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Blurb from the book: It all started when Tommy Hambledon was asked by the Home Secretary to become an inmate of a prison. Seems prisoners were disappearing with unnerving regularity and Tommy, identity unknown even to the local prison authorities, set to work to find the leak. Tommy wasn't exactly en rapport with prison life, and when he got a chance to substitute for a prisoner who was to be spirited away, he was delighted. When the break came, however, Tommy found himself in a tight spot -- he was in danger by refusing to play along with the gang and he was in undeniable danger from the law. But he found two allies, both of whom were out for blood, and one for murder too. Among Those Absent zips around that tight little island of England with speed and humor and outrageous disregard for legal conventions.

Pray silence

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This book is also known as A Toast to Tomorrow. See that entry for a description.

Dangerous by nature

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In the Central American republic of Esmeralda, Tommy Hambledon finds himself trapped between hot Latin temperaments and cold 'hostile powers,' waiting for his American opposite number to show up -- waiting, and waiting. . . But to keep things interesting there is a sherry-swilling parrot, a lethal local lottery, and the hostile powers to be stymied, with or without the missing American, and all in the middle of a wild, ravine-filled terrain.

A knife for the juggler

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AKA The Vengeance Man From the paperback edition's back cover: "Hambledon's most trusted man was snatched away from a crowed Paris hall -- and vanished into oblivion. With him went Hambledon's hopes of smashing the international kidnapping ring whose crimes menaced the uneasy peace of a continent. Then the missing agent reappeared with a fantastic story of an incredible conspiracy -- and Hambledon went into fast and furious action!"