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Adelaide Frances Oke Manning (1891–1959) and Cyril Henry Coles (1899–1965), collaborated between the early 1940s and the early 1960s to write many spy thrillers under the pseudonym Manning Coles.
Their novel "The Fifth Man" appeared in 1946 and has twenty-three chapters:
I. Who Comes?
II. In Order of Appearance
III. Conference in Whitehall
IV. A Dutchman from Flushing
V. Short Life of Jean Legrin
VI. Disappearance in Berlin
VII. Portrait of a Collaborator
VIII. The Jan Houys Puts to Sea
IX. Smell Onions, Smell Death
X. Two Painters Pass Out
XI. The Old Sow
XII. Alias Henty Bilston
XIII. Breaking and Entering
XIV. The New Recruit
XV. Sad Case of Plugs Mulligan
XVI. Treasure Hung
XVII. Jones
XVIII. Unlucky Day
XIX. "Home, James----"
XX. Test Case
XXI. Mrs. Brampton
XXII. The Man with the Clipped Ear
XXIII. Our Leader-in-England
Approximate list of "Manning Cole's" productions. Most of them are the work of Adelaide Manning and Cyril Coles. The last two were written by Coles with Tom Hammerton:
Drink to Yesterday, 1940
Toast To Tomorrow, 1940
Pray Silence, 1940
They Tell No Tales, 1941
Without Lawful Authority, 1943
Green Hazard, 1945
The Fifth Man, 1946
Let the Tiger Die, 1947
A Brother for Hugh, 1947
Among Those Absent, 1948
Diamonds to Amsterdam, 1949
Not Negotiable, 1949
Dangerous by Nature, 1950
Now or Never, 1951
Operation Manhunt, 1953
Night Train to Paris, 1952
A Knife for the Juggler, 1953
Not for Export, 1954
The Man in the Green Hat, 1955
The Basle Express, 1956
The Three Beans, 1957
Death of an Ambassador, 1957
No Entry, 1958
Crime in Concrete, 1960
Search for a Sultan, 1961
The House at Pluck's Gutter, 1963
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