TOMMY HAMBLEDON was a gift that
the intelligence department lost no time in using. He was an espionage agent par excellence, with the additional
qualifications of having been a practical police officer for many years. When
one ship after another sank mysteriously not long out of Portsmouth harbor,
Tommy was called on to find the source of the trouble. The case of the sinking
ships turned into the case of the murdered MacGregor, and Mr. Hambledon of the
Intelligence functioned as a police officer as well as a government agent.
Manning Coles, and Tommy
Hambledon, his chief character, have established a reputation in
espionage-mystery fiction. In other books (Drink
to Yesterday, A Toast to Tomorrow, etc.) Tommy has operated abroad. Now, in
They Tell No Tales, he is working in
England, back on home grounds. This story has the same excellent qualities of
closely-woven plot and good writing that distinguish Coles' work.
This special edition of THEY TELL
No TALES by Manning Coles has been made available to the Armed Forces of the
United States through an arrangement with the original publisher, Doubleday,
Doran and Co., Inc., New York.
Editions for the Armed Services,
Inc., a non-profit organization established by the Council on Books in Wartime
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