《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