All the Wrong Questions · Book 1
Who Could That Be at This Hour?
- Published
- 23 October 2012
- Pages
- 259
- ISBN-13
- 9780316225021
- Type
- novel
About this book
Who Could That Be at This Hour? (2012) opens Lemony Snicket's prequel quartet, sending thirteen-year-old Snicket himself to the failing seaside town of Stain'd-by-the-Sea on his first case for the mysterious organization he serves, paired with a chaperone whose usefulness ranges from questionable to actively harmful. At 259 pages, it sets up the case that gives the series its title -- one that keeps generating the wrong questions to ask rather than the right ones -- in a tone darker and more noir-inflected than A Series of Unfortunate Events.
Its place in All the Wrong Questions
Who Could That Be at This Hour? is book 1 in the All the Wrong Questions series. It is followed by File Under: 13 Suspicious Incidents. See the full All the Wrong Questions reading order.
All the Wrong Questions is Lemony Snicket's prequel series to A Series of Unfortunate Events, set decades earlier and following Snicket himself as a thirteen-year-old apprentice sent by the mysterious organization he serves (referred to only as "the organization") to the failing seaside town of Stain'd-by-the-Sea. Once a thriving harbor, the town has dried up along with its ink-producing octopi, and Snicket, paired with a chaperone whose usefulness ranges from questionable to actively harmful, is tasked with…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780316225021