The Penultimate Peril
Front cover of U.S. edition
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| Author | Lemony Snicket (pen name of Daniel Handler) |
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| Illustrator | Brett Helquist |
| Cover artist | Brett Helquist |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Series | A Series of Unfortunate Events |
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Gothic fiction Absurdist fiction Steampunk Mystery |
| Publisher | HarperCollins |
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October 18, 2005 |
| Media type | Print (hardback & paperback) |
| Pages | 353 |
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| Preceded by | The Grim Grotto |
| Followed by | The End |
The Penultimate Peril is the twelfth novel in the children's novel series A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket.
The Baudelaire orphans, Violet, Klaus and Sunny are travelling with pregnant V.F.D member Kit Snicket to Hotel Denouement, the last safe place for volunteers to gather. She tells them that, prior to V.F.D's gathering in two days, they will be disguised as concierges to observe the mysterious 'J.S', in order to identify him or her as a volunteer or a villain of V.F.D. The hotel's managers are identical twins Frank and Ernest - Frank is a volunteer, while Ernest is on the opposing side as a villain.
During their first day of disguised employment, the Baudelaires split up to assist the hotel's guests - Violet assists Esmé Squalor and Carmelita Spats by bringing them a harpoon gun, Klaus assists Charles and Sir (the owners of the Lucky Smells Lumbermill) by escorting them to the sauna while also hanging flypaper outside a window for one of the managers, and Sunny assists Hal (an employee at Heimlich Hospital), Vice-Principal Nero, Ms. Bass and Mr. Remora (teachers at Prufrock Preparatory School) while locking a V.F.D device onto a door of the laundry room, converting it into a Vernacularly Fastened Door - all the guests discuss the mysterious J.S.
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