Wartime Spies and a Mystery With Real Drive
Young spies uncovering a body in wartime London gives this story immediate tension and a strong sense of purpose. Stevens balances historical detail, danger and deduction neatly, making it a very appealing recommendation for readers who enjoy suspenseful fiction with brave young protagonists.
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The Ministry of Unladylike Activity: The Body in the Blitz
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Wartime Spies and a Mystery With Real Drive
Young spies uncovering a body in wartime London gives this story immediate tension and a strong sense of purpose. Stevens balances historical detail, danger and deduction neatly, making it a very appealing recommendation for readers who enjoy suspenseful fiction with brave young protagonists.
- Book Synopsis
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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.
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 . . . ?
Ideal for readers who:
- Respond to wartime mysteries where secrecy and danger feel built into every street
- May be hooked by the discovery of a body in the ruins of Blitz-hit London
- Like brave young investigators working in a world where adults underestimate them
- Need a clever historical thriller with plenty of suspense and forward drive
- About The Author
- Robin Stevens is the award-winning author of the Murder Most Unladylike and Ministry of Unladylike Activity series for younger readers. Her books have sold over 3.5 million copies globally and been translated into more than twenty languages. She is a fan of a lot of things, especially crime fiction and true crime. She does not live in the Cotswolds any more. This is her debut adult novel.
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9780241429914
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Puffin, (12 October 2023)
- Number of Pages
- 440
- Weight
- 310 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 197 x 129 x 30 mm
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