Ring of Spies

Speedy cars and faster women, British secret agents and Nazi spies, stolen American blueprints hidden in violin cases and specially adapted umbrellas. This is the story of the Nazi spy ring that operated in America in the 1930s.

Receiving orders via a hairdressing salon in an unfashionable quarter of Dundee, the ring’s eccentric cast included Scotland’s Jessie Jordan and Germany’s Jenni Hofmann, who were beauticians who spied; the Long Island musician Willy Lonkowski, who was otherwis…