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One espionage writer who is so completely forgotten he's not even listed on GR is Edgar Wallace's son Bryan Edgar Wallace. I've only ever found one of his books, Death Packs a Suitcase. It's an interesting 1961 Cold War spy thriller.

Anybody remember Manning Coles? That was a joint pseudonym for two British civil servants who wrote espionage novels from the '40s to the 60's. They wrote a lot of them, and the quality varies a lot, but a few are really good. Drink to Yesterday is one of my favorite spy books.

I may have to check out Manning Coles. Thanks for the recommendation.

Michael Gilbert. I rented his first book of espionage short stories from my library, Game Without Rules. He is largely out of print and known mainly for detective fiction.

Philip Atlee (James Atlee Phillips) wrote the tough-guy "Joe Gall" series in the sixties and seventies -- my late father read them and passed them along to me in my teens.

Perhaps not entirely forgotten, but worth mentioning here is S.S. Van Dine and his Philo Vance series.

The Devil Rides Out (Duke de Richleau, #6); is one of a series of unusual books by Dennis Wheatley, who was a mentor-figure to Ian Fleming during WWII; working in the famous 'London Controlling Section'.

From Wheatley's character 'Gregory Sallust', James Bond gleaned some of his famous characteristics (one of over a dozen other figures, of course).

Wheatley was a novelist who specialized in thrillers and occult novels (and sometimes a mix of the two) between the 30s and the 60s. I'm keen to explore his bibliography at some point.

E. Phillips Oppenheim, the father of the spy novel!

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