The second thrilling and unputdownable mystery starring a new generation of the Detective Society from the millioncopybestselling 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 grownups always underestimate them. Enter May Eric and Nuala courageous smart and the Ministrys newest recruits.Mays 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 bombedout 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 . . .