Manning Coles Books in Order

Bill Saunders, a teenager with a gift for languages, is drawn into British intelligence during the First World War. Guided by Tommy Hambledon, he works behind German lines until the violence and an old murder begin to close in.

Thought dead after the first war, Tommy Hambledon wakes in Germany with no memory and a new identity. As he rises inside the early Nazi machine, he has to recover himself in time to fight it from within.

Back in England, Tommy investigates a string of ship losses and a murder tied to secret wartime sabotage. Ordinary places and ordinary people hide a dangerous network, which makes the case feel especially tense.

A disgraced officer and an unexpected burglar ally stumble onto Nazi agents in prewar England. Their off-the-books hunt eventually pulls Tommy Hambledon in and turns into a lively mix of espionage, danger, and black comedy.

Sent to look into a powerful new explosive, Tommy is mistaken for a scientist and carried deep into wartime Berlin. He has to bluff the Nazis, survive old enemies, and turn captivity into a chance to strike back.

Five British prisoners are offered a way home, but only by training as Nazi agents. Tommy must work out who can be trusted, and whether the enemy's real weapon is the mission or the men themselves.

What starts as a Swedish holiday becomes a chase across Europe after men with Nazi loyalties reappear. Tommy follows false papers, hidden plans, and dangerous pursuers in one of the series' brisker postwar adventures.

Tommy walks into a case built on false identities and half-truths, then finds unexpected help from Campbell and Forgan. The search soon widens into a nimble postwar tangle of criminals, secrets, and divided loyalties.

Asked to unravel a string of baffling prison breaks, Tommy goes undercover from the inside. The result is part prison mystery, part escape story, with jewels, murder, and quick thinking all crowded together.

A case involving smuggled diamonds, kidnapping, and murder sends Tommy into a restless postwar Europe. The trail is full of crooks and shifting motives, with just enough odd science to make the whole business even stranger.

A small clue in a Brussels café pulls Tommy into a fast-moving hunt for a counterfeit ring. The chase runs through Belgium and France, with murders, police allies, and plenty of sudden turns along the way.

Tommy is dropped into a tense Central American republic where local politics and foreign interests are colliding. Far from his usual European ground, he has to navigate heat, suspicion, and a situation ready to turn violent.

In ruined postwar Cologne, Tommy poses as a harmless tourist while tracking a neo-Nazi underground. The city is full of rubble, secrets, and old loyalties that refuse to die.

Tommy is sent behind the Iron Curtain to rescue a boy who could become the future ruler of a small European state. It is a Cold War mission of disguises, quick talk, and risky extraction.

An English businessman is handed dangerous information by an East German defector and suddenly becomes prey. What follows is a tight espionage chase toward Paris, with danger pressing in on every side.

A public performance ends in murder, and Tommy follows the trail from Paris to the Canary Islands. Politics, smuggling, and revenge all crowd into the case, giving it a wider reach than the opening crime suggests.

A robbery near an aircraft designer in occupied Germany leads Tommy into a knot of stolen jewels, missing plans, and international gunmen. The case mixes postwar tension with a classic hunt for who is playing whom.

Ghostly cousins Charles and James Latimer return to help their living family with thieves, murder, and a missing inheritance. It is light, witty, and more playful than the Hambledon books, but still full of trouble.

The Latimer ghosts are back, this time to rescue a relative in Italy from romantic entanglement and worse. Along the way there are robbers, a murder, comic mishaps, and more interference from their unruly pet monkey.

On what should be a holiday trip, Tommy wakes in a train compartment to find his fellow passenger shot and secret papers missing. Soon he is hunted across the Alps by criminals who think he has what they want.

A film crew arrives at a German castle without realizing one of the key players is a ghost. This standalone ghost comedy mixes old-world setting, movie-making chaos, and a lighter supernatural touch.

When the new ambassador from Esmeralda is murdered in London, Tommy is drawn into an investigation that leads to Paris. The trail crosses diplomacy, jewel thieves, and a shadowy helper who may be useful or dangerous.

Tommy goes after a gang of financial swindlers whose schemes spill from France into larger international trouble. Disguises, surveillance, and sudden violence keep this one moving at a sharp clip.

Richard Scroby accidentally kills a burglar and flees to Paris with crooks and his aunt in pursuit. The Latimer ghosts return to help, turning the whole affair into a bright, chaotic supernatural caper.

Tommy crosses from West Germany into the East to find the missing son of a man tied to atomic defense. At the same time, a young captive fights his own way toward freedom, giving the story real urgency.

The shooting of a safe-cracker leads Tommy toward the vicious Louis Magid and a colder trail than he first expects. The search runs from London's underworld to a French village, an old castle, and a dangerous woman.

A diplomatic murder and an aging ruler leave Britain desperate to find a hidden heir before a strategic state collapses. Tommy races through France and North Africa in search of a boy who might change the balance of power.

Called back from semi-retirement, Tommy investigates stolen binoculars that turn out to matter far more than they should. The case has a late-series feel, with odd clues, old-fashioned spycraft, and help from Campbell and Forgan.