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