''The House at Pluck's Gutter'' is a novel by

Manning Coles 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 ...

, published in 1963, featuring the protagonist

Thomas Elphinstone Hambledon Thomas Elphinstone Hambledon (Tommy Hambledon) is the fictional protagonist of many spy novels written by the British author "Manning Coles" (actually the two-person writing team of Adelaide Frances Oke Manning and Cyril Henry Coles) from 1940 thro ...

. The book was named after the old Ferry Cottage at

Plucks Gutter Plucks Gutter is a hamlet in the civil parish of Stourmouth, Kent, England. The hamlet is situated where the Little Stour and Great Stour rivers meet. Etymology The hamlet is named after a Dutch Drainage Engineer called Ploeg, whose grave is i ...

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1963 British novels Novels set in Kent Hodder & Stoughton books British spy novels {{1960s-novel-stub