Who Could that be at This Hour? All the Wrong Questions

by
Lemony Snicket

Illustrations by Seth

If Lemony Snickett had actually drunk his tea in the Hemlock Tearoom and Stationery Shop, he would never had ended up in a scratched green roadster with S. Theodora Markson, heading for Stain’d-by-the-Sea.

Neither would he have fallen into the wrong tree, walked into the wrong basement or asked so many wrong questions. And he might have solved the mystery of the shiny, black wooden statue of the Bombinating Beast even more quickly. Or maybe he wouldn't...

The first in a quartet of volumes of Lemony Snickett’s highly unlikely account of his childhood and apprenticeship to a top secret organisation is also the first Snickett series since A Series of Unfortunate Events. An eccentric, inventive and wildly improbable read, it is certain to entertain young readers.

Publisher: Egmont

Lemony Snicket

Lemony Snicket is the pseudonym novelist Daniel Handler used while writing his sequence of darkly comic children's books known as A Series of Unfortunate Events. The 13 novels in the series relate the hard-luck history of the Baudelaire orphans, Violet, Klaus and Sunny. Snicket narrates their piteous adventures and misfortunes at the hands of evil Count Olaf, a master of disguises and truly bad actor.

The first book in the series, The Bad Beginning, was published in 1999. Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events, a 2004 feature film based on the books, starred Jim Carrey and featured appearances by Meryl Streep, Jude Law, and many other celebrities. Handler is a longtime resident of San Francisco, and his style has been compared to Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. He also has published novels for older teens and adults, including The Basic Eight (1999) and Watch Your Mouth (2000).

Handler has said that the name 'Lemony Snicket' is not intended to be a tribute to the cartoon character Jiminy Crickett; Handler claims the pseudonym was made up on the spur of the moment while researching material for one of his other books, and that the name predates A Series of Unfortunate Events... Handler is an opera fan and performed in operas as a boy.

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