Nothing to Declare

216 pp. A Tommy Hambledon short story collection. Manning Coles was 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 1940s through the early 1960s. The fictional protagonist in 26 of their books was Thomas Elphinstone Hambledon, who works for a department of the Foreign Office, usually referred to in the novels as "MI5".