Book 12 of 13 in the A Series of Unfortunate Events
Author: Lemony Snicket
Genre: Fiction, Mystery
Format: Hardcover

Description:
The Penultimate Peril is the twelfth book in the thirteen-book Series of Unfortunate Events series. In this book, the Baudelaire orphans are sent to work at Hotel Denouement to uncover which of the guests are working for the V.F.D. and which are working against them.
This novel picks up exactly where the eleventh book left off, with the Baudelaire orphans in the back of a taxi driven by a pregnant stranger. This woman Kit Snicket claims to have worked with the Baudelaires deceased parents and she sends the children on their first mission for the V.F.D. working as concierges in the Hotel Denouement to discover which guests are working for the V.F.D. and which guests are working against the organization. They also want to discover the true identity of the mysterious J.S. and discover the location of the sugarbowl a most treasured artifact for the V.F.D. and its enemies. All the members of the V.F.D. are scheduled to arrive at Hotel Denouement by Thursday for a very important meeting and the Baudelaires are sent to make sure the hotel is still a safe meeting place. If not they are ordered to send a sign to the organization saying that their last safe place is safe no longer.