The Ministry of Unladylike Activity: the exciting new adventure from the bestselling author of Murder Most Unladylike: 1 (The Ministry of Unladylike Activity, 1)

Stevens, Robin

ISBN 10: 0241429862 / ISBN 13: 9780241429860

Published by Puffin, 2022

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Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Ministry of Unladylike Activity: the exciting new adventure from the bestselling author of Murder Most Unladylike: 1 (The Ministry of Unladylike Activity, 1)
• Publisher: Puffin
• Publication Date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0241429862
• ISBN 13: 9780241429860
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Very Good
• Weight: 230 grams

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Synopsis

The start of a thrilling new Second World War mystery series from the number-one-bestselling and multi-award-winning author of Murder Most Unladylike.

'Superb' Observer

'Meticulous and sharp' Guardian

'Engaging . . . You will make the journey with a spring in your step' The Times

'Robin Stevens is Agatha Christie for children' Katherine Rundell on the Murder Most Unladylike series

1940. Britain is at war, and a secret arm of the British government called the Ministry of Unladylike Activity is training up spies.

Enter May Wong: courageous, stubborn, and desperate to help end the war so that she can go home to Hong Kong (and leave her annoying school, Deepdean, behind forever). May knows that she would make the perfect spy. After all, grown-ups always underestimate children like her.

When May and her friend Eric are turned away by the Ministry, they take matters into their own hands. Masquerading as evacuees, they travel to Elysium Hall, home to the wealthy Verey family - including snobby, dramatic Nuala. They suspect that one of the Vereys is passing information to Germany. If they can prove it, the Ministry will have to take them on.

But there are more secrets at Elysium Hall than May or Eric could ever have imagined.

And then someone is murdered...

'Spirited and fun . . . A must for young murder mystery fans' Bookseller

About the Author

Robin Stevens was born in California and grew up in an Oxford college, across the road from the house where Alice in Wonderland lived. She has been making up stories all her life.

When she was twelve, her father handed her a copy of The Murder of Roger Ackroyd and she realised that she wanted to be either Hercule Poirot or Agatha Christie when she grew up. She spent her teenage years at Cheltenham Ladies' College, reading a lot of murder mysteries and hoping that she'd get the chance to do some detecting herself (she didn't). She went to university, where she studied crime fiction, and then she worked at a children's publisher.

Robin is now a full-time author and the creator of the internationally award-winning and bestselling Murder Most Unladylike series, starring Daisy Wells and Hazel Wong, and the brand-new Ministry of Unladylike Activity. She still hopes she might get the chance to do some detecting of her own one day. She lives in Oxford.