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Jan 24: A Toast To Tomorrow (Tommy Hambledon #2) by Manning Coles (1940)
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I want to read this eventually, but I went to pick up two requested books at my library yesterday - one mystery, one nonfiction - started browsing, and ended up leaving with four more books, all on my fiction and nonfiction TBR lists! I’m sure I’m not alone in this habit…Anyway, I bought this kindle and the first in the series, as I like to read things in order. Hope to get to them eventually!
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And, Susan in NC, I understand completely. I feel quite proud of myself when I return more books to the library than I leave with.
Susan wrote: "I also read the first book first, Susan. I struggle to read books out of order as well!"Can’t help it, unless I am specifically told, “no, each book is a standalone!” ;o)
Sandy wrote: "I'm another who simply must start at the beginning. I liked the first book a lot and am enjoying the second as well. And, Susan in NC, I understand completely. I feel quite proud of myself when I..."
Sometimes, I just ask my husband to pick up my books on hold, so I don’t come home with an armful! I’m like a magpie with shiny objects, “oooh, a Large Print Christie! I’ve read it before, but such a pretty cover, and Poirot in the desert!” Or country house, or steamship, or in London…
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I read through most of this series a few years ago (thanks to my mom, for the strong recommendation!). Tommy Hambledon is a fun main character and lots of the books have wonderful secondary characters.I started with this one inadvertently and it was very enjoyable but now having read the first book, I would say it would be better to read Drink to Yesterday first.
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I am glad that so many people are getting pleasure from one of my favourite series.
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Good to hear, Leslie. I just looked at the list of books in this series and was surprised to see that there were 25 books altogether, with the last one being published in the 1960s. I think I may well read a few more.
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I'm planning to read the first five, until he is back in Germany. My library has them so not much of a commitment.
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Author 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 1940s through the early 1960s.Manning and Coles were neighbours in East Meon, Hampshire. Coles worked for British Intelligence in both the World Wars. Manning worked for the War Office during World War I. Many of the original exploits were based on the real-life experiences of Coles, who lied about his age and enlisted under an assumed name in a Hampshire regiment during World War I while still a teenager and worked in British Intelligence.
Joseph Goebbels is fuming. It's the mid-1930s and the Nazi Minister of Propoganda has a nice little racket going. He and his cohorts are allowing Jews to slip out of Germany in return for 80 percent of their assets. But longtime Nazi party member Klaus Lehmann, the Chief of the German Police, is too much of a prig to let him get away with it. And given that Lehman was one of Hitler's earliest supporters, he's virtually untouchable. In the meantime, British Intelligence is going around in circles. Someone in Germany is sending them messages in a code that hasn't been used since World War I. When it was first published in 1941 in the U.S., A Toast to Tomorrow, along with its predecessor, Drink to Yesterday, was heralded by famed critic Anthony Boucher as a single long and magnificent novel of drama, intrigue and humour.
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