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Manning Coles

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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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Intelligence officers, Fiction, Intelligence service, British spy stories, Fiction, mystery & detective, general, ghosts, Fiction in English, Fiction, thrillers, espionage, Great britain, fiction, Tommy Hambledon (Fictitious character), fantasy, English Spy stories, Espionage/Intrigue, Intelligence officers in fiction, Intelligence service in fiction, British Espionage, Early Christian literature, Fiction, general, History and criticism, Intelligence officers--Fiction, Intelligence service--Great Britain--Fiction, Juvenile literature, Officiers de renseignements, Romans, nouvelles, Secret service

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Great Britain, Germany, France, Paris, St. Denis-sur-Aisne, Andermatt, Belgium, Besancon, Central America, England, European coast, Great Britain; Germany; Russia, Italy, Lake Como, London, Menaggio, Paris (France), Pyrenees, Rome, Spain, Switzerland, The Rhineland, U.S.S.R

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1950s, WWII, around 1950, early 1940s, 1912-1924, 1918 - 1939, 1920s, 1930s, 1938, 1940s, 1942-43, 1945, WWI, about 1950s, about 1960, about the mid-1950s, around 1947, around the early 1950s, between WWI and WWII, early 1950s, in the late 1940s, late 1940s, late 1950s, mid-1950s, post-World War II

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May 3, 2025 Edited by mheiman merge authors
March 22, 2025 Edited by mheiman Added VIAF
March 22, 2025 Edited by mheiman merge authors
June 17, 2024 Edited by M C W Added identifier
April 1, 2008 Created by an anonymous user initial import