"WHEN DID YOU SEE HER LAST?" by Lemony Snicket

"WHEN DID YOU SEE HER LAST?"

From the "All the Wrong Questions" series, volume 2
Age Range: 8 - 14
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KIRKUS REVIEW

Questions answered, question posed (the wrong one again). Mysteries solved, mystery deepens….           

Nearly 13-year-old Lemony Snicket chased the missing statue of the Bombinating Beast under the inept, ignorant and annoying supervision of his mentor S. Theodora Merkson (“Who Could That Be at This Hour?”, 2012). That case didn’t turn out too well. They now have a new case, and Theodora looks to be pursuing this as ineptly as she did before. The duo is searching for Miss Cleo Knight, daughter of the heirs of Ink Inc. Her unconcerned parents appear to have been drugged by their private apothecary, Dr. Flammarion, but housekeepers Zara and Zora are deeply worried. Cleo’s a brilliant chemist, but shallow investigation points to her having run off to join the circus. Young Mr. Snicket knows most things are not as they seem at first, and while his mentor celebrates solving the case, he investigates further, with the help of associates from his last adventure, and discovers connections to their last case…and the case his sister Kit is working on. Snicket’s second of four All the Wrong Questions is more sly noir for preteens. Chock-full of linguistic play and literary allusions to children’s and classic literature, this is adventure mystery for young readers who like to think as they read.

Little is answered definitively, but fans won’t mind; they’ll just be pleased there are two more young Snicket adventures to come. (Mystery. 8-14)

Pub Date: Oct. 15th, 2013
ISBN: 978-0-316-12305-1
Page count: 288pp
Publisher: Little, Brown
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Kirkus Reviews Issue: Aug. 15th, 2013




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