There is nothing to be found in the pages of these books but misery and despair.
You still have time to choose something else to read. But if you must know what
unpleasantries befall the charming and clever Baudelaire children read on...The
Penultimate Peril.
Sadly this next-to-last chronicle of the lives of the Bau
delaire orphans, and it is next-to-first in its supply of unpleasantness. Probab
ly the next-to-last things you would like to read about are a harpoon gun, a roo
ftop sunbathing salon, two mysterious initials, three unidentified triplets, a n
otorious villain and an unsavoury curry. Next-to-last things are the first thing
to be avoided!
