A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Penultimate Peril by Lemony Snicket (author)

The penultimate travails of the poor Baudelaire orphans are more miserably woeful than ever. Will they ever escape the ogre Olaf and his hideous henchmen? Probably the next-to-last things you would like to read about are a harpoon gun, a rooftop sunbathing salon, two mysterious initials, three unidentified triplets, a notorious villain and an unsavoury curry. Next-to-last things are the first thing to be avoided!