A Series of Unfortunate Events · Book 11
The Slippery Slope
- Published
- 1 January 2003
- Pages
- 337
- ISBN-13
- 9780439698375
- Type
- novel
Buy on AmazonAll A Series of Unfortunate Events books in order
About this book
The Slippery Slope is book 10 of the series, published in 2003, with the Baudelaire orphans' fully cumulative story and the VFD mystery continuing to escalate. It runs 337 pages.
Its place in A Series of Unfortunate Events
The Slippery Slope is book 11 in the A Series of Unfortunate Events series. It follows Lemony Snicket: The Unauthorized Autobiography. It is followed by The Grim Grotto. See the full A Series of Unfortunate Events reading order.
The three Baudelaire orphans - inventive Violet, bookish Klaus, and biting baby Sunny - lose their parents in a fire and are shuttled from one disastrous guardian to the next, pursued at every turn by the scheming Count Olaf, who wants their inheritance and will adopt any disguise to get it. Narrated in deliberately overwrought, doom-laden prose by the mysterious "Lemony Snicket" (a pseudonym for author Daniel Handler, who also appears as a character investigating a secret organization tangled up in the…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781405266154
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780439698375