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School Library Journal
Reviewed on September 1, 2013 | Fiction
Gr 4–6—In this follow-up to "Who Could That Be at This Hour?" (Little, Brown, 2012) 12-year-old Lemony Snicket is an apprentice in a mysterious organization and still stationed in Stain'd by the Sea with his stern and unimaginative chaperone, S. Theodora Markson. (Readers still don't know what the S. stands for.) Lemony and his mentor have been assigned to investigate the mysterious disappearance of Cleo Knight, a brilliant chemist and daughter of the richest couple in town. Markson is content to believe the far-fetc...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Magazine
Reviewed on October 1, 2013
A further adventure for the young private eye Lemony Snicket involves the disappearance of Cleo Knight, a brilliant young chemist who is the only hope for the rejuvenation of the moribund town of Stain'd-by-the-Sea. Snicket's dim adult associate S. Theodora Markson thinks the case is solved, that Knight has run away with the circus. Snicket knows better. In the course of hi...Log In or Sign Up to Read More