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★ 百萬暢銷童書推理名家 Robin Stevens 全新謎案，戰時英國、密碼破譯與聖誕懸疑交織登場！★ 從女子學校到布萊切利園，三位孩子偵探闖入最高機密的殺人事件。★ 適合喜歡《Murder Most Unladylike》、阿嘉莎・克莉絲蒂式推理與歷史懸疑的讀者。1941年聖誕前夕，梅與努拉被送往神祕的布萊切利園，卻立刻捲入密碼破譯員之死。一張絕密訊息、疑似間諜的指控，以及被冤枉的 Bertie Wells，讓她們必須在戰時機密與重重謊言中破解真相。'Robin Stevens is Agatha Christie for children' - Katherine Rundell‘It’s hard to know where to start. There’s so much to say – about the murders, and the codes, and the spy, that I’m getting tangled up in the story already...'It's December 1941, and almost Christmas, when a bomb falls on Deepdean School for Girls. May and Nuala are whisked away from the chaos and sent to stay with May's big sister, Hazel Wong, who is working at Bletchley Park.Within seconds, they're thrown straight into their most dangerous case yet. A codebreaker has been shot in what appears to be a tragic accident - until a suspicious and top-secret message is discovered in his pocket. Was he a spy, working for the other side? Was the message planted on him? Most importantly - was this murde

The Ministry of Unladylike Activity (Book 1-3)

《The Ministry of Unladylike Activity》系列第二集由百萬暢銷作家Robin Stevens打造，繼續帶領年輕讀者進入充滿謎團與緊張氣氛的偵探世界。這次主角May、Eric和Nuala三人，成為部門的新成員。May的姐姐Hazel幫助他們安排在一條靜謐街道住下，這條街因戰爭而聚集了各式人物。在一次調查中，他們發現了被轟炸的街尾一間房子的地下室裡藏著一具屍體，這具屍體並非戰前殘跡查驗時所見，顯然是近期有人刻意放置。這具屍體是否就是正在法國執行危險任務的間諜Daisy Wells失蹤的同伴？或者是街道某位居民想要隱藏的秘密人物？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. Som

Poetry. Dot Devota's THE DIVISION OF LABOR, selected as the Editor's Choice for Rescue Press' Black Box Poetry Prize, tethers the eerie echoes of political and cultural rhetoric to a stunning and docu

The MoI had a global impact during the war and its work has reverberated in British culture ever since, from Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four to memes based on the slogan 'Keep Calm and Carry On'. The book discusses the development of the Ministry, those who worked for it, and the many audiences it addressed, both in Britain and internationally.