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.
March 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. May's big sister Hazel has
arranged for them to stay on a quiet street close to the Ministry home to an unlikely
collection of people thrown together by the war. And it is in the basement of the bombed-out
house at the end of that street that they discover something mysterious. 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 . . . ?
