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The world is at war, and a secret arm of the British government called the Ministry of Unladylike Activity is training up spies.<br \/>\nEnter <\/span><span class=\"a-text-bold\" style=\"color: #0f1111; font-family: 'Amazon Ember', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 700 !important;\">May Wong<\/span><span style=\"color: #0f1111; font-family: 'Amazon Ember', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: #ffffff;\">: brave, 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.<br \/>\nWhen May and her friend <\/span><span class=\"a-text-bold\" style=\"color: #0f1111; font-family: 'Amazon Ember', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 700 !important;\">Eric<\/span><span style=\"color: #0f1111; font-family: 'Amazon Ember', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: #ffffff;\"> 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 &#8211; including snobby, dramatic <\/span><span class=\"a-text-bold\" style=\"color: #0f1111; font-family: 'Amazon Ember', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 700 !important;\">Nuala<\/span><span style=\"color: #0f1111; font-family: 'Amazon Ember', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: #ffffff;\">. They suspect that one of the Vereys is passing information to Germany. If they can prove it, the Ministry will <\/span><span class=\"a-text-italic\" style=\"color: #0f1111; font-family: 'Amazon Ember', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: #ffffff; font-style: italic !important;\">have<\/span><span style=\"color: #0f1111; font-family: 'Amazon Ember', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: #ffffff;\"> to take them on.<br \/>\nBut there are more secrets at Elysium Hall than May or Eric could ever have imagined.<br \/>\nAnd then, someone is murdered . . .<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Author: Robin Stevens Publisher: Puffin 1940. The world is at war, and a secret arm of the British government called the Ministry of Unladylike Activity is training up spies. 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