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The second thrilling and unputdownable mystery starring a new generation of the Detective Society, from the million-copy-bestselling author of Murder Most Unladylike: Robin Stevens. 
 
April 1941. Britain is at war, and a secret agency called the Ministry of Unladylike Activity is training up children as spies - because grown-ups always underestimate them. 
 
Enter May, Eric and Nuala: courageous, smart, and the Ministry's newest recruits. They have travelled to London for spy training, and are staying on a quiet street close to the Ministry, home to an unlikely collection of people thrown together by the war. 
 
One day, while exploring the bombed-out house at the end of the street, they discover something that should not be there. Something that was not there when the Blitz wreckage was first combed through. Something that has been placed there recently. A body... 
 
Could this be the missing Ministry spy that Daisy Wells is on a dangerous mission in France to find? Or could it be someone else - someone a resident of the street wanted silenced . . . ? 
 
©2023 Robin Stevens (P)2023 Penguin Audio

Robin Stevens was born in California and grew up in an Oxford college, across the road from the house where Alice in Wonderland lived. She has been making up stories all her life. 
 
When she was twelve, her father handed her a copy of The Murder of Roger Ackroyd and she realised that she wanted to be either Hercule Poirot or Agatha Christie when she grew up. She spent her teenage years at Cheltenham Ladies' College, reading a lot of murder mysteries and hoping that she'd get the chance to do some detecting herself (she didn't). She went to university, where she studied crime fiction, and then she worked at a children's publisher. 
 
Robin is now a full-time author and the creator of the internationally award-winning and bestselling Murder Most Unladylike series, starring Daisy Wells and Hazel Wong, and the brand-new Ministry of Unladylike Activity. She still hopes she might get the chance to do some detecting of her own one day. She lives in England.

Britain is at war, and a secret arm of the British government called the Ministry of Unladylike Activity is training up children as spies - for grown-ups always underestimate children. Enter May, Eric and Nuala: courageous, smart, and the Ministry's newest recruits. 
 
It is April 1941, and London has made it through the worst of the Blitz. May, Eric and Nuala have travelled to the capital to begin spy training with the Ministry of Unladylike Activity. Their days are spent at the British Museum, which has been emptied of its treasures during the war, and is now being used by secret agents as a training base. In the evenings they return to Eric's home on a quiet street in Bloomsbury. 
 
The street is home to an unlikely collection of people thrown together by the war, and soon tensions begin to surface. Then one day, when the children are exploring the bombed-out house at the end of the street, they discover something that should not be there - something that was not there when the wreckage was first combed through. Something that has been placed there recently. A body... 
 
Could this be the missing Ministry spy that Daisy Wells is on a mission to find? Or could it be someone else - someone a resident of the street wanted silenced? 
 
The second thrilling and unputdownable mystery starring a new generation of the Detective Society, from the million-copy-bestselling author of Murder Most Unladylike: Robin Stevens.

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