"Who Could That Be at This Hour?" by Lemony Snicket

This book is the first in a new series that Lemony has written called All The Wrong Questions. I hope you enjoy it!

Lemony Snicket is with his parents at the local cafe. He's got a new job as a apprentice detective. His chaperone is called S. Theodora Markson. The only thing she does that's helpful to Lemony is to save him from a tea that his parents (or who he thought were his parents) gave him. It had a banned drug in it that would put you to sleep.

S. Theodora Markson and Lemony's mission is to bring back a statue called the Bombinating Beast. It is an important family object in the Salis family. (Mrs. Salis is the one who sends Lemony and S. Theodora Markson on the misson.) Mrs. Salis says it was stolen by the Mallahan family who live in a lighthouse nearby. When Snicket visits the Mallahan lighthouse he befriends the Mallahans' daughter, Moxie. She takes him up into their attic and Snicket finds loads of stuff to do with the Bombinating Beast including a statue of the beast that they were looking for but Moxie says it's been in the family for decades.

That night S. Theodora Markson and Snicket agree to climb a thin wire that leads from a nearby tree to the lighthouse. The only problem is the clusterous forest. Instead of trees it's seaweed! Soon Snicket is dangling dangerously on the wire above the clusterous forest. Suddenly Snicket loses his grip and plunges into the forest below.

Snicket wakes up in a small house teetering at the edge of a cliff, near the forest. It belongs to a girl called Ellington Faint. Ellington's father was kidnapped by a vicious criminal called Hangfire, he is very good at mimicking people's voices. He wants that Bombinating Beast so wherever Snicket is with that statue, he isn't safe at all...

I liked this book because of it's compelling plot and funny expressions. Rating: 9 out of 10!!

All the wrong questions website