The reptile room
/ by Lemony Snicket ; illustrations by Brett Helquist
- First edition
- 190 pages : illustrations
- Series of unfortunate events, book 2 .
After narrowly escaping the menacing clutches of the dastardly Count Olaf, the three Baudelaire orphans are taken in by a kindly herpetologist with whom they live happily for an all-too-brief time.