The Private Life of Spies

During WW2 there was a rumour that German spies were landing by parachute in
Britain, dressed as nuns...

Conradin Muller was an unusual spy. He was recruited in Hamburg in June 1943,
much against his will, and sent on his first, and only, mission in late
September that year. He failed to send a single report back to Germany, and
when the War came to an end in May 1945, he fell to his knees and wept with
relief.

From a highly reluctant German spy who is drawn to an East Anglian nunnery as
his only means of escape, to the strange tale of one of the Cambridge spy
ring's adventures with a Russian dwarf, these are Alexander McCall Smith's
intriguing and typically inventive stories from the world of espionage.

'Spy-masterful storytelling' Sunday Post

'Delightfully old-fashioned and prudent of prose, McCall Smith unspools his
tales' Daily Mail

'[Adds] another treasure to McCall Smith's already glittering library' New
York Journal of Books