The Ministry of Unladylike Activity 2: The Body in the Blitz

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.