and some other of Manning Coles' subsequent novels Hambledon actually occupies quite a minor role — in The Man in the Green Hat (1955) he hardly appears at all in the first half of the book. Hambledon is thought to have been based by Coles on a former teacher of his. He eventually became the youngest officer in British intelligence, often working behind German lines, due to his extraordinary ability to master languages. Cyril Coles himself was a model maker and was, at the time of his death, building a train set from scratch for his young grandson. In popular culture In the season four premiere episode of Archer, the titular secret agent character is similarly suffering from amnesia, believing himself to be the eponymous hamburger chef character of the animated series Bob's Burgers. The "daily special" on the menu board is "Thomas Elphinstone Hambledurger with Manning Coleslaw". References Fictional secret agents and spies Series of books